The Politics of Belonging in the Himalayas: Local Attachments and Boundary Dynamics (Governance, Conflict and Civic Action) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8132105249 ISBN 13: 9788132105244

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

This volume is an exploration of the various forms of bonds and attachments by which individuals in the Himalayan regions of India and Nepal are bound to their groups. To grasp these phenomena adequately, the book proposes a new analytical approach through the concept of belonging. The book is based on several case studies carried out by anthropologists, historians, and geographers who help bring together rich ethnographical data from different regions of the Himalayas. Organized in three parts, it describes the interactions between local forms of belonging and new forms of classification imposed through national integration or modes of politics.

About this title

About the Author:

Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany. She was coordinator of the EU-Asia-Link Project ‘The (Micro) Politics of Democratisation: European–South-Asian Exchanges on Governance, Conflict and Civil Action’ with Tribhuban University Kathmandu (CNAS), University of Colombo (IMPAP), and Oxford University (ISCA), as project partners. Her major book publications include Ethnic Futures: State and Identity in Four Asian Countries (with A. Nandy, D. Rajasingham-Senanayke, and T. Gomez) (1999); Nationalism and Ethnicity in Nepal (co-editors: D. Gellner/J.Whelpton) (2008); The Ethnicisation of the Political: Identity Politics in Latin America, Asia and in USA (with C. Büschges) (2007).

Review:

Packed with interesting case stories from across the Himalayas, the rich discourse offers interesting insights on addressing emerging conflicts by applying the idea of ‘belongingness’. The Politics of Belonging in the Himalayas is an academic treatise.

Author: d-sector.org

The book explores various forms of bonds and attachments by which individuals in Himalayan region of India and Nepal are bound to their groups...The book, which is a part of series on Governance, Conflict, and Civil Action, explores various societal formations throughout history and captures the ongoing changes within them. This collaborative publication goes beyond and beneath, identity constructions and calls into question the idea of permanence implied by the term.

Author: Development Alternatives

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 8132105249
• ISBN 13: 9788132105244
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Pfaff-Czarnecka Joanna, Toffin Gerard