Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/281239 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
Transforming Asia No. 7
Publisher: 
Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam
Abstract: 
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 farmers' right to land, instituting spaces of violence in which multiple forms of marginalisation overlap and are reinforced. Mapping how farmers react to these challenges emotionally and practically, the book argues that these land conflicts serve as a starting point for existentially charged disputes in which the survival efforts of farmers clash with the political imaginations and practices of the nation-state. The analysis shows that losing land represents more than being deprived of a material asset: it is nothing less than the extinction of ways of life.
Subjects: 
Bangladesh
borderlands
nation-sate
indigenous
violence
agency
anthropology of life
land dispossession
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ISBN: 
9789463721752
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Book

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