Shifting landscapes : the making and remaking of village commons in India

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    • Brara, Rita

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Shifting landscapes : the making and remaking of village commons in India

Rita Brara

Oxford University Press, 2006

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-311) and index

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内容説明

This book is a high quality ethnographic study in the classical sense. The fundamental question that Brara asks in her book is whether there are other ways of thinking about the village than in terms of its distinctions of caste, vertical ties created by patron-client relations of congregation of private propertied peasantry. She offers the idea that villagers can and do represent and act on matters of common concern but that this does not commit us to thinking of village communities a s harmonious wholes. Brara explores the institutional arrangements (commons) as a concept to analyse ideas of common good, the emergence of public action and property rights in Indian villages. She breaks from existing paradigms of agency as located in peasant movements and subaltern history. She contends that these are imagined always in relation to an elite and instead offers the idea of the shifting frames within which sociality operates at the village level.

目次

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, I. INTRODUCTION. II. COMMONS POLICY AS PRACTICE: THE STATE OF RAJASTHAN (1955-95). III. VILLAGE COMMONS AND PUBLIC SPHERE. IV. PERSPECTIVES ON COMMON ENCROACHMENT. V. THE CHANGING PATTERN OF ANIMAL OWNERSHIP AND FODDER PROVISIONING. VI. ARE GRAZING LANDS WASTELANDS ? VII. CONCLUSIONS. APPENDIX I: TABLES A.1-A.22. APPENDIX II. REFERENCES

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