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Negotiating Development at the Margins Natural Resources, Conflicts, and People’s Movements in Odisha

158 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

158 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

158 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

This book critically examines various facets of conflicts involving people and the state arising due to the uneven distribution of natural resources. It provides an overview of the people’s movements in Odisha, a resource-rich state in eastern India. Reflecting on the conceptual frameworks of conflict, it analyses violence, and struggle for rights over resources, and public policies around... Read more

1. Natural Resource, Conflict, and People’s Movement in Odisha: A Primer

Anshuman Behera and Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan

                                               

2. Development: What Is It and for Whom?

Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan

                                                                                           

3. Conflicts over Natural Resources: Analysis of Conditions for Emergence and Strategies for Prevention

Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan

                                                                  

4. The Struggle for Rights and Resources: Understanding People’s Movements in Odisha

Anshuman Behera

                                                                                        

5. People’s Movement under a Revolutionary Brand: Understanding the Maoist Movement in Odisha

Anshuman Behera

 

6. Conflict over Land Resources between Marginalized Groups: Interrogating Damba–Kandha Conflict in Koraput

Anshuman Behera

                                                                                       

7. Managing Conflicts over Natural Resources: A Way Forward

Anshuman Behera and Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan 

Biography

Anshuman Behera is Associate Professor at National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, India. His research interests include conflict studies, political violence, political theory, and development and conflict. His latest books are Gandhi in the Twenty-First Century: Ideas and Relevance and Varying Dimensions of India’s National Security: Emerging Perspectives.

Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan is an engineer-turned development researcher. He is Associate Professor at the Institute of Rural Management Anand, Gujarat, India. He was the Subir Chowdhury Post-doctoral Fellow at the London School of Economics in 2017. He has won the Elsevier-National Academy of Sciences, India Young Scientist Award 2017 in Social Sciences. His areas of interest include economic measurement, sustainability, energy, human development, sociopolitical reform, and disarmament.