In the shadows of naga insurgency: tribes, state, and violence in Northeast India
Publication details: Oxford University Press, 2018. New Delhi:Edition: First editionDescription: xxiv, 329 p. : ill. ; hb, 23 cmISBN:- 9780199485703
- 954.165 WOU
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-314) and index.
In the Shadows of Naga Insurgency is a fine-grained critique of the Naga struggle for political redemption, the state’s response to it, and the social corollaries and carry-overs of protracted political conflict on everyday life. Offering an ethnographic under view, Jelle Wouters illustrates an ‘insurgency complex’ that reveals how embodied experiences of resistance and state aggression, violence and volatility, and struggle and suffering link together to shape social norms, animate local agitations, and complicate inter-personal and inter-tribal relations in expected and unexpected ways. The book locates the historical experiences and agency of the Naga people and relates these to ordinary villagers’ perceptions, actions, and moral reasoning vis-à-vis both the Naga Movement and the state and its lucrative resources. It thus presses us to rethink our views on tribalism, conflict and ceasefire, development, corruption, and democratic politics.
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