TY  - BOOK
AU  - McDuie-Ra,Duncan
TI  - Civil Society, Democratization and the Search for Human Security: The Politics of the Environment, Gender, and Identity in Northeast India
SN  - 9781607414032
AV  - JQ620.M4559 -- M34 2009eb 
U1  - 300.954/164 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated
KW  - Political participation -- India -- Meghalaya
KW  - Civil society -- India -- Meghalaya
KW  - Democratization -- India -- Meghalaya
KW  - National security -- India -- Meghalaya
KW  - Meghalaya (India) -- Politics and government
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- CIVIL SOCIETY, DEMOCRATIZATION AND THE SEARCH FOR HUMAN SECURITY: THE POLITICS OF THE ENVIRONMENT, GENDER, AND IDENTITY IN NORTHEAST INDIA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- GLOSSARY OF NON-ENGLISH TERMS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART 1: BOUNDED SPHERES,  BOUNDED IDENTITIES -- CIVIL SOCIETY, DEMOCRATISATION  AND HUMAN SECURITY -- THE ASCENDANCY OF THE THIRD SPHERE MODEL -- WHY CIVIL SOCIETY? -- EURO-CENTRISM AND CRITICAL CIVIL SOCIETY -- CIVIL SOCIETY IN INDIA -- HUMAN SECURITY -- APPLYING HUMAN SECURITY -- A CRITICAL STARTING POINT -- COLONIALISM, STATE FORMATION,  AND IDENTITY IN NORTHEAST INDIA -- DRIVE-IN ANTHROPOLOGY -- CREATING TRIBES AND HILL TRIBES IN COLONIAL ASSAM -- THE PERSISTENCE OF COLONIAL CATEGORIES:  STATE FORMATION AND THE FURTHER  POLITICISATION OF IDENTITY -- THE 'OUTSIDERS' DISCOURSE:  POLITICAL POWER AND  ETHNICITY IN MEGHALAYA -- THE HEGEMONY OF IDENTITY IN MEGHALAYA -- IDENTITY, POWER AND INEQUALITY -- INSECURE IDENTITY -- PART II - MARGINALITY AND VOICE:  THE INSECURITY OF CIVIL SOCIETY -- CONSTRUCTING ENVIRONMENTAL INSECURITY:  THE POLITICS OF DEGRADATION AND IDENTITY -- APPROACHING ENVIRONMENTAL INSECURITY -- ENVIRONMENTALISM IN NATIONAL AND LOCAL CONTEXTS -- ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION IN MEGHALAYA -- URANIUM MINING, COAL MINING, AND 'OUTSIDERS' -- COAL MINING -- ETHNICISING THE ENVIRONMENT -- THE MYTH OF EMPOWERMENT:  GENDER, INSECURITY, AND IDENTITY -- APPROACHING GENDER AND INSECURITY -- GENDER-BASED INSECURITY IN THE KHASI HILLS -- GENDER POLITICS IN THE KHASI HILLS -- CONTESTING POWER: RECOVERING AGENCY -- TOWARDS TRANSCENDENCE? -- PART III - TRANSCENDENCE:  BRINGING BACK THE POLITICAL -- TRANSCENDENCE: RE-THINKING CIVIL SOCIETY, RE-INTERPRETING HUMAN SECURITY, AND  RE-IMAGINING MEGHALAYA -- RE-IMAGINING CIVIL SOCIETY -- RE-INTERPRETING HUMAN SECURITY -- RE-IMAGINING MEGHALAYA; TRANSCENDENCE -- RE-POLITICISATION -- CONCLUSION: UNCOVERING NEGLECTED NARRATIVES OF INSECURITY -- APPENDIX 1: LIST OF ORGANISATIONS CONSULTED -- REFERENCES -- INDEX
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3018331
ER  -