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Governing India's Northeast

Essays on Insurgency, Development and the Culture of Peace

Samir Kumar Das (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

93 Seiten

2013 | 2013 ed.
Springer, India, Private Ltd (Verlag)
978-81-322-1145-7 (ISBN)

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This book focuses on issues of governance and the nature and complexities of social transformation in India’s Northeast -- a ‘problem’ zone for policymakers -- particularly since the early 1990s. While governance is the thread that runs through the volume, the latter at one level addresses the challenges of governing in global times a region historically marked by acute violence, interethnic conflict and insurgency; and at another, traces macro changes in the very forms and technologies of governance. The essays in this volume point to how changing forms and technologies of governing insurgency, development and culture do not remain mere instruments of peace, but define the very nature and content of both peace and conflict and their interrelationship in the region.

For the first time in the history of scholarship on the region, the three crucial issues of insurgency, development and culture have been analysed through the lens of governance. This volume, therefore, marks an important addition to the scholarship on the region.

Professor Samir Kumar Das is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of North Bengal, India. A professor of political science at the University of Calcutta, Kolkata (on leave), he has been the coordinator of the University Grants Commission-Departmental Research Support Programme on ‘Democratic Governance: Comparative Perspectives’. He was also a post-doctoral fellow (2005) of the Social Science Research Council (South Asia Program). He specializes in and writes on ethnicity, security, migration, rights, justice and democracy and has lectured widely in premier academic institutions at home and in the USA, Finland, France, Italy, Sweden, Belgium and many other countries on various assignments.

Introduction.- I: Production of Insurgent Subject.- II: Shifting Strategies of Peace.- III: Governing Cultures of Peace.

Reihe/Serie	SpringerBriefs in Political Science
Zusatzinfo	X, 93 p.
Verlagsort	New Delhi
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte	Governance in northeast India • Insurgency in northeast India • North-eastern states in India • Northeast India • Peace in northeast India • Violence in India
ISBN-10	81-322-1145-6 / 8132211456
ISBN-13	978-81-322-1145-7 / 9788132211457
Zustand	Neuware