Dancing with the River

People and Life on the Chars of South Asia

AvKuntala Lahiri-Dutt,Gopa Samanta

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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Beskrivning

An intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of “hybrid landscapes” and their inhabitantsWith this book Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Gopa Samanta offer an intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of “hybrid environments.” Focusing on chars—the part-land, part-water, low-lying sandy masses that exist within the riverbeds in the floodplains of lower Bengal—the authors show how, both as real-life examples and as metaphors, chars straddle the conventional categories of land and water, and how people who live on them fluctuate between legitimacy and illegitimacy. The result, a study of human habitation in the nebulous space between land and water, charts a new way of thinking about land, people, and people's ways of life.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-06-07
Mått:156 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt:567 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Yale Agrarian Studies Series
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:Yale University Press
ISBN:9780300188301

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Geografi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Kuntala Lahiri–Dutt is a senior fellow in resource management in the Asia-Pacific Program at the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. She lives in Canberra. Gopa Samanta is an associate professor in geography at the University of Burdwan. She lives in Golapbag, Burdwan, India.

Recensioner i media

“This is a refreshing perspective on what remains a little understood region…it can be put alongside a now speeding train of thought on classics such as Seeing like a State and The Art of Not Being Governed and a cascade of writings on post-development and geographies of hope literature.”— Rohan D’Souza, Jawaharlal Nehru University, author of Drowned and Dammed: Colonial Capitalism and Flood Control in Eastern India