Negotiating Marginality

Providing a critical ethnography of five different tribal movements fighting against the mega-industrialization projects in Odisha, India, the book presents a thick description of the confrontation of the tribals to the authoritative forces of state domination.

Autorentext

Rajakishor Mahana is an Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Anthropology and Coordinator of the Department of Tribal Legal Studies and Tribal Rights at Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar.

Inhalt

1. A Postmodern Encounter with Adivasi Rethinking Marginality, Development and Resistance 2. Producing Underdevelopment The Politics of Hunger Deaths in Odisha 3. Contested Development The Political Economy of Survival 4. Smell of Land Internal Dynamics of Conflict over Land 5. Politics of Violence and Poetics of Resistance The Police State and Tribal Anarchists 6. Politics of Territoriality Keeping State at a Distance 7. Negotiating Marginality Subaltern Citizens and the Challenges of Transformation