Mining, Displacement, and Matriliny in Meghalaya: Gendered Transitions

Author:   Bitopi Dutta (UPES, Dehradun, India)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   186
Publication Date:   04 March 2022
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Author:   Bitopi Dutta (UPES, Dehradun, India)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge India
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367678500


ISBN 10:   0367678500
Pages:   186
Publication Date:   04 March 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction 1 A gender analysis of development-induced displacement 2 Reinventing narratives of displacement: Methodological considerations 3 The context of Meghalaya 4 Gender, mining, and matriliny in the Jaintia Hills 5 “Growing up in a mining area”: Gendering labour, leisure, and mobility 6 Intimacies and violence in the mines 7 Gendering love, marriage, and reproductive health: The question of continuity and change Conclusion Bibliography Photographs Index

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Bitopi Dutta is an Assistant Professor at the School for Liberal Studies at the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies(UPES), Dehradun, India. She has a PhD from the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University, Ireland (2020), her Master of Arts in Social Work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai and her BA Hons. in Sociology from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi. She has been an Irish Research Council Awardee Scholar by the Government of Ireland and has four books on displacement studies including one on one traditonal method of conflict resolution to her authorship. Prior to joining UPES, she has taught in TISS and continues to be associated with film-making with her production house called Vortex Films, whose first feature film production has won the National Films Award in 2021. She is one of the pioneers of the Queer Movement in Northeast India and was the co-organiser of the first Queer Pride walk in Assam which took place in 2014. Her research interests include Gender and sexuality, Indigenous people, displacement studies, qualitative research.

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