Prasenjit Biswas
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Development Research focusing on North-East India (NEI) seems to be limited by isolated and piecemeal nature of empirical studies. This situation throws up a challenge to investigate into the causal and historical linkages between politics and economics. Taking into consideration the existing lacunae in development research focusing on NEI, the study investigates the nature and causes of underdevelopment and its myriad politico-cultural expressions through the ...
The book discusses the crucial issues of our times: instability of meanings and problems concerning our practice. What has been termed as postmodern moment in our contemporary life and literature is taken on with a spirit of appreciation and subversion. The triptych of postmodernity, namely, Rorty, Derrida and Habermas, is pitted face to face, sideways and in the crossroads, only to gather fragment of our failing wisdom, that of a blurring of philosophy and ...
The book explores many sided conflicts and their possible resolutions within the very notion of Peace. In the context of North East India, Peace has been elusive-as it never had been substantively achieved, although it had been procedurally justifiable. Moving beyond this paradigm of cessation of conflict and a limited operation of what is called ‘resolution’, the book for the first time unwraps the secret of peace from the politics of peace or dialogues of ...
Ethnic Life-Worlds in North-East India: An Analysis draws upon the phenomenological notion of the life-world to understand the culturally-embedded construction of communities for who the lived experience of cultural politics constitutes their identity. It analyses the cultural and political determinants of ethnic -and identity-oriented struggles in India's North-East, as well as the cultural politics of ethnic mobilizations in the region. Such mobilizations are ...
Ethnic Life-Worlds in North-East India : An Analysis draws upon the phenomenological notion of the life-world to understand the culturally-embedded construction of communities for whom the lived experience of cultural politics constitutes their identity. It analyses the cultural and political determinants of ethnic and identity-oriented struggles in India's north-east, as well as the cultural politics of ethnic mobilizations in the region. Such mobilizations are ...