Fixed Borders, Fluid Boundaries: Identity, Resources and Mobility in Northeast India

This book explores the challenges in Northeast India, including identity, development, environment, migration, land alienation, and policy impacts, and how the region has emerged as a resource frontier for the global markets. It discusses key themes such as development and peoples resistance, underdevelopment, resource flow and conflict, community response, state and customary practices, politics of land and citizenship, development-induced dispossession, human mobility, immigration, and conflict.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 208 pages
Publication date: 25 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive book delves into the intricate challenges faced by Northeast India, shedding light on the complex nature of flows and ruptures that shape the daily lives of its people. It brings together a multitude of interconnected issues, including identity, development, environment, migration, land alienation, and policy impacts, to provide a holistic understanding of the region.

Northeast India's history is a tapestry woven with internal dynamic processes and its interconnectedness with neighboring countries, characterized by a fluid movement of people and goods across porous borders. The book explores how this region has emerged as a resource frontier for global markets, yet its resource mobilization has led to disparities within the region. It delves into key themes such as development processes, underdevelopment in peripheral areas, resource flow and conflict, community responses and local agency, state and customary practices, politics of land and citizenship, development-induced dispossession, human mobility, immigration, and conflict, as well as the notion of outsiders, inter-state border conflict, and spatial connections.

The volume is packed with rich empirical data, making it an invaluable resource for students and researchers in development studies, Northeast India studies, sociology, political science, border and migration studies, public policy, peace and conflict studies, as well as practitioners and policymakers. By examining these complex issues, the book offers valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities facing Northeast India and contributes to the broader understanding of regional dynamics and social change.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367495107