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Project

The Illegal Economy of Democracy in a Militarised Society – the Case of Bodoland, Assam

The PhD project uses a twofold theoretical framework of political economy of extraction and

postcolonial democracy to understand the functioning of illegal economy of timber and its association with democratic processes like election funding, client-patronage relationships. Using a political ethnography methodology across several villages in BTAD, Assam, the project seeks to integrate the discourses around illegal economy, democracy and violent conflict.

Date:1 Sep 2016 →  30 Oct 2018
Keywords:ethnic conflict, India, democracy, political economy
Disciplines:Anthropology