Vernacular Politics in Northeast India
Democracy, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 23 August 2022
- ISBN 9780192863461
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages426 pages
- Size 223x146x28 mm
- Weight 648 g
- Language English 289
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Short description:
Nowhere in India is contemporary politics and visions of 'the political' as diverse, animated, uncontainable, and poorly understood as in Northeast India. Approaching politics in the vernacular, this book thinks itself afresh into the region's political life.
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Perhaps nowhere in India is contemporary politics and visions of 'the political' as diverse, animated, uncontainable, and poorly understood as in Northeast India. Vernacular Politics in Northeast India offers penetrating accounts into what guides and animates Northeast India's spirited political sphere, including the categories and values through which its peoples conceive of their 'political' lives. Fourteen essays by anthropologists, political scientists, historians, and geographers think their way afresh into the region's political life and sense. Collectively they show how different communities, instead of adjusting themselves to modern democratic ideals, adjust democracy to themselves, how ethnicity has become a politically pregnant expression of local identities, and how forms and politics of indigeneity assume a life of its own as it is taken on, articulated, reworked, and fought over by peoples.
Jelle Wouters has come of age, both in terms of theoretical insights and writing skills, and with Vernacular Politics he seems fully poised to dominate the scene. This book not only brings together some of the theoretically most topical, portent, and inebriating concepts like counter-sovereignties, ethno-politics, bio-moral politics, prophecy as politics, cosmo-politics, alter-politics, and compressed modernity, but also some of the most promising young and a few but highly accomplished senior scholars.
Table of Contents:
Preface and Introduction
What is a Raij? Translating Counter-Sovereignties in Twenty-First-Century Assam
A Non-Eurocentric Genealogy of Indian Democracy: Tripura in History of Political Thought
Monks and Minority Politics in Arunachal Pradesh
Ethnic mobilization and the election process: A study of the contours of identity making in Mizoram
Ethnocracy in Deeply Divided Societies: The Dynamics of Ethnopolitics in Manipur
Like The Fish Follow The Python: Biomoral Politics Amongst Meitei Revivalists
Prophecy as Politics: Of Chosenness, Covenant and Cosmos in the Naga Struggle for Sovereignty
Konyak cosmopolitics: feasting kings, fasting prophets and the state
'A register and a bill' The contentious making of citizenship in Assam
The body of the land: Women, ethnicity and alter-politics
Women as/and Outsiders: Subjectification, Exclusion and Depoliticisation in North East India
Designing Indigeneity: Eco-Tourism, State Benevolence, and 'Entitled' Youth in Dzongu, Sikkim
Northeast India as a Complex and Compressed Modernity
