Mining, Displacement, and Matriliny in Meghalaya

ISBN-13: 9780367711283 / Miękka / 2023 / 186 str.

India) Dutta Dehradun Bitopi (UPES

Opis

This book studies how Development Induced Displacement (DID) radically restructures gender relations in indigenous tribal societies.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Introduction

1 A gender analysis of development-induced displacement

2 Reinventing narratives of displacement: Methodological considerations

3 The context of Meghalaya

4 Gender, mining, and matriliny in the Jaintia Hills

5 “Growing up in a mining area”: Gendering labour, leisure, and mobility

6 Intimacies and violence in the mines

7 Gendering love, marriage, and reproductive health: The question of continuity and change

Conclusion

Bibliography

Photographs

Index

O autorze

Bitopi Dutta is an Assistant Professor at the School for Liberal Studies at the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies(UPES), Dehradun, India. She has a PhD from the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University, Ireland (2020), her Master of Arts in Social Work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai and her BA Hons. in Sociology from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi. She has been an Irish Research Council Awardee Scholar by the Government of Ireland and has four books on displacement studies including one on one traditonal method of conflict resolution to her authorship. Prior to joining UPES, she has taught in TISS and continues to be associated with film-making with her production house called Vortex Films, whose first feature film production has won the National Films Award in 2021. She is one of the pioneers of the Queer Movement in Northeast India and was the co-organiser of the first Queer Pride walk in Assam which took place in 2014. Her research interests include Gender and sexuality, Indigenous people, displacement studies, qualitative research.