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In the Shadows of the State - Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India (Paperback)
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In the Shadows of the State - Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India (Paperback)
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In the Shadows of the State suggests that well-meaning indigenous
rights and development claims and interventions may misrepresent
and hurt the very people they intend to help. It is a powerful
critique based on extensive ethnographic research in Jharkhand, a
state in eastern India officially created in 2000. While the
realization of an independent Jharkhand was the culmination of many
years of local, regional, and transnational activism for the rights
of the region's culturally autonomous indigenous people, Alpa Shah
argues that the activism unintentionally further marginalized the
region's poorest people. Drawing on a decade of ethnographic
research in Jharkhand, she follows the everyday lives of some of
the poorest villagers as they chase away protected wild elephants,
try to cut down the forests they allegedly live in harmony with,
maintain a healthy skepticism about the revival of the indigenous
governance system, and seek to avoid the initial spread of an armed
revolution of Maoist guerrillas who claim to represent them.
Juxtaposing these experiences with the accounts of the village
elites and the rhetoric of the urban indigenous-rights activists,
Shah reveals a class dimension to the indigenous-rights movement,
one easily lost in the cultural-based identity politics that the
movement produces. In the Shadows of the State brings together
ethnographic and theoretical analyses to show that the local use of
global discourses of indigeneity often reinforces a class system
that harms the poorest people.
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