1st Edition
Land, Life, and Emotional Landscapes at the Margins of Bangladesh
By Éva Rozália Hölzle
Copyright 2022
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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 the establishment of a military cantonment. In implementing these programmes, state actors challenge... Read more
Introduction: Land and Life, State Formation and Land Tenure in Bangladesh - A Historical Sketch, Between Fear and Hope at the Bangladesh-Assam Border, The Intolerable Dullness of Ecotourism in Sylhet, Triggers of Wrath and Revenge in Madhupur Forest, Land Loss Lamentations next to Sylhet Cantonment, Violence, Agency, and Life in the Fabric of Power, Bibliography, Index of Subjects.
Biography
Éva Rozália Hölzle is a social anthropologist working as a research associate and lecturer at the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany since 2011. She studied sociology and social anthropology at Eötvös Lóránd University in Hungary and at Bielefeld University, Germany. For this book she did extensive 24 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Bangladesh along the border to Meghalaya, Assam and Tripura.
