Tag: Land

April 9, 2023

Land Dispossession and Everyday Politics in Rural Eastern India

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Free Download Kenneth Bo Nielsen, "Land Dispossession and Everyday Politics in Rural Eastern India"
English | ISBN: 1783087471 | 2018 | 234 pages | EPUB | 589 KB
Over the past decade India has witnessed a number of land wars that have centred crucially on the often forcible transfer of land from small farmers or indigenous groups to private companies. Among these, the land war that erupted in Singur, West Bengal, in 2006, went on to make national headlines and become paradigmatic of many of the challenges and social conflicts that arise when a state-led policy of swiftly transferring land to private sector companies encounters resistance on the ground. Land Dispossession and Everyday Politics in Rural Eastern India analyses the movement by Singur’s so-called unwilling farmers to retain and reclaim their farmland. By foregrounding the everyday politics of popular mobilization, the book sheds new light on the movement’s internal politics as well as on contentious issues rooted in everyday caste, class and gender relations.

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April 9, 2023

Home-Land Romanian Roma, Domestic Spaces and the State

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Free Download Rachel Humphris, "Home-Land: Romanian Roma, Domestic Spaces and the State "
English | ISBN: 1529201926 | 2019 | 256 pages | EPUB | 352 KB
In contemporary society, passport checks at nation-state borders are accepted. But what if these checks were happening in our own home? This book is the first intimate ethnography of these governing encounters in the home space between Romanian Roma migrants and local frontline workers. Focusing on how the nation-state is reproduced within the home, the book considers what it is like to have your legal status, your right to ‘belong’, judged from your everyday domestic life. In essence this book is about the divide between state and family, home-land and home and what it means for the new rules of citizenship.

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April 7, 2023

This Land Was Saved for You and Me

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Free Download This Land Was Saved for You and Me: How Gifford Pinchot, Frederick Law Olmsted, and a Band of Foresters Rescued America’s Public Lands by Jeffrey H. Ryan
English | September 1, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B4BQXY2R | 217 pages | EPUB | 4.75 Mb
The story of how America’s public lands-our city parks, national forests, and wilderness areas-came into being can be traced to a few conservation pioneers and proteges who shaped policy and advocated for open spaces. Some, like Frederick Law Olmsted and Gifford Pinchot, are well known, while others have never been given their due.

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April 3, 2023

Australia’s Darwin, Arnhem Land and Kakadu

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Free Download Australia’s Darwin, Arnhem Land and Kakadu by Brian Lawrenson
English | December 9, 2015 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B00615IGTA | 70 pages | EPUB | 1.70 Mb
The very north of Australia has long been regarded as one of the most remote and distinctly different areas on earth. Join three travellers as they safari through three different areas: the city of Darwin and its surrounds, Kakadu – the largest National Park in Australia, and on through Arnhem Land where time stands still to visit the seldom visited but scenically stunning Coberg Peninsular. You’ll experience flooded alligator filled rivers, meet the local Aboriginal people and meet a Cape buffalo named Charlie.

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