Aparajita Majumdar
Biographic Data
| ID | 3730820 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aparajita Majumdar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aparajita |
| FAMILY NAME | Majumdar |
| SIGNATURE | MAJUMDAR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Recalcitrant Lifeworlds
This article analyzes how a failed rubber crop from the plantations of British India became indispensable to the shaping of Indigenous ecologies in the India-Bangladesh borderlands. While a growing scholarship focuses on plants that became profitable within plantation histories, this article instead shows that failed commodity crops like Ficus elastica, locally known as Jri Bamon in Meghalaya, India, exhibited recalcitrance to a range of state an…
‘Objects’ of Appropriations
This chapter argues for the existence of ‘potent’ resource objects -those ‘objects of appropriations’ that contribute actively in the making and unmaking of extractive cultures. The chapter shows that the rubber resource frontier that developed across the borders of the erstwhile province of Assam was not simply the doing of human-centric activities. It was in fact considerably shaped by the material qualities that rubber exhibited at the various…
The Colonial State and Resource Frontiers: Tracing the Politics of Appropriating Rubber in the Northeastern Frontier of British India, 1810–84
The article, through an investigation of a plethora of colonial reports, correspondences and petitions, attempts to build a history of frontier spaces invested in resource appropriation. Discovered in the forests of the northeastern tracts of British India in the early nineteenth century, rubber entailed the culmination of a resource frontier whose effects simultaneously produced the disruptive as well as the dialogical in a multiplicity of extra…
The Colonial State and Resource Frontiers: Tracing the Politics of Appropriating Rubber in the Northeastern Frontier of British India, 1810–84
The article, through an investigation of a plethora of colonial reports, correspondences and petitions, attempts to build a history of frontier spaces invested in resource appropriation. Discovered in the forests of the northeastern tracts of British India in the early nineteenth century, rubber entailed the culmination of a resource frontier whose effects simultaneously produced the disruptive as well as the dialogical in a multiplicity of extra…
The Colonial State and Resource Frontiers: Tracing the Politics of Appropriating Rubber in the Northeastern Frontier of British India, 1810–84
The article, through an investigation of a plethora of colonial reports, correspondences and petitions, attempts to build a history of frontier spaces invested in resource appropriation. Discovered in the forests of the northeastern tracts of British India in the early nineteenth century, rubber entailed the culmination of a resource frontier whose effects simultaneously produced the disruptive as well as the dialogical in a multiplicity of extra…
‘Objects’ of Appropriations
This chapter argues for the existence of ‘potent’ resource objects -those ‘objects of appropriations’ that contribute actively in the making and unmaking of extractive cultures. The chapter shows that the rubber resource frontier that developed across the borders of the erstwhile province of Assam was not simply the doing of human-centric activities. It was in fact considerably shaped by the material qualities that rubber exhibited at the various…
Recalcitrant Lifeworlds
This article analyzes how a failed rubber crop from the plantations of British India became indispensable to the shaping of Indigenous ecologies in the India-Bangladesh borderlands. While a growing scholarship focuses on plants that became profitable within plantation histories, this article instead shows that failed commodity crops like Ficus elastica, locally known as Jri Bamon in Meghalaya, India, exhibited recalcitrance to a range of state an…
Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Political science (2 works) · Appropriation (1 works) · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies (1 works) · Colonialism (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Dialogical self (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · Frontier (1 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (1 works)