Chapter in scientific anthology by Darley Jose Kjosavik
Evy JørgensenKjosavik, Darley Jose. 2011. Standpoints and Intersections: Towards an Indigenist Epistemology. In: The Politics of belonging in India: becoming Adivasi / Edited by Daniel J. Rycroft, Sangeeta Dasgupta. - London, Routledge
Since the 1990s, the Indigenous movement worldwide has become increasingly relevant to research in India, re-shaping the terms of engagement with Adivasi (Indigenous/tribal) peoples and their pasts. This book responds to the growing need for an inter-disciplinary re-assessment of Tribal studies in postcolonial India and defines a new agenda for Adivasi studies. It considers the existing conceptual and historical parameters of Tribal studies, as a means of addressing new approaches to histories of de-colonization and patterns of identity-formation that have become visible since national independence.
Contributors address a number of important concerns, including the meaning of Indigenous studies in the context of globalised academic and political imaginaries, and the possibilities and pitfalls of constructions of indigeneity as both a foundational and a relational concept. A series of short editorial essays provide theoretical clarity to issues of representation, resistance, agency, recognition and marginality. The book is an essential read for students and scholars of Indian Sociology, Anthropology, History, Cultural Studies and Indigenous studies.
Part 3: Landscape and Adivasi Agency
Introduction to Part 3 Daniel J. Rycroft and Sangeeta Dasgupta
6. Customary Rights and Resistance in the Forests of Singhbhum Vinita Damodaran
7. Standpoints and Intersections: Towards an Indigenist Epistemology Darley Jose Kjosavik
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