Mini-India
The Politics of Migration and Subalternity in the Andaman Islands
Seiten
2017
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-946986-4 (ISBN)
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-946986-4 (ISBN)
This contribution to Political Anthropology, Migration Research, and Postcolonial Studies fills a gap in the hitherto under-represented scholarship on the settler society of the Andaman Islands, called Mini-India. The main actors of the book are migrants from criminalised, low-class, low-caste, landless, refugee, repatriated, and Adivasi backgrounds. While some achieved social mobility through their movement to this 'new world' for South Asians, others continued to remain disenfranchised and marginal. This holds especially true for the Ranchis, Adivasi labour migrants from Chotanagpur, who are at the centre of an ethnographic case study in the second part of the book.
Employing the concept of subalternity to investigate political negotiations of island history, collective identity, ecological sustainability, and resource access, the author analyses various shades of inequality arising from communities' material and representational access to the state. Far from merely representing them as vulnerable victims of external domination, the author emphasizes subaltern agency in migration, settlement, and place-making processes. Representing characteristic views, practices, consciousness and voices of subaltern interlocutors, the book demonstrates particular strategies to achieve autonomy, autarchy, and peaceful cohabitation through movement, appropriation, and multi-layered means of resistance.
Employing the concept of subalternity to investigate political negotiations of island history, collective identity, ecological sustainability, and resource access, the author analyses various shades of inequality arising from communities' material and representational access to the state. Far from merely representing them as vulnerable victims of external domination, the author emphasizes subaltern agency in migration, settlement, and place-making processes. Representing characteristic views, practices, consciousness and voices of subaltern interlocutors, the book demonstrates particular strategies to achieve autonomy, autarchy, and peaceful cohabitation through movement, appropriation, and multi-layered means of resistance.
Philipp Zehmisch is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich.
PART I THEORY, METHODOLOGY, AND THE FIELD; PART II ISLANDS OF SUBALTERNITY: MIGRATION, PLACE-MAKING, AND POLITICS; PART III LANDSCAPES OF SUBALTERNITY: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE RANCHIS OF MINI-INDIA
Erscheinungsdatum | 23.06.2017 |
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Zusatzinfo | 14-11 photos and 3 maps |
Verlagsort | New Delhi |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 149 x 223 mm |
Gewicht | 526 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-946986-5 / 0199469865 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-946986-4 / 9780199469864 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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