Land, Life, and Emotional Landscapes at the Margins of Bangladesh
Drawing on two years of ethnographic research in the north-eastern borderlands of Bangladesh, this book focuses on the everyday struggles of indigenous farmers threatened with losing their land due to such state programmes as the realignment of the national border, ecotourism, social forestry and th...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press
[2022]
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Transforming Asia
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009671536206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Land and Life
- 2 State Formation and Land Tenure in Bangladesh – A Historical Sketch
- 3 Between Fear and Hope at the Bangladesh-Assam Border
- 4 The Intolerable Dullness of Ecotourism in Sylhet
- 5 Triggers of Wrath and Revenge in Madhupur Forest
- 6 Land Loss Lamentations next to the Sylhet Cantonment
- 7 Violence, Agency, and Life in the Fabric of Power
- Bibliography
- Index
