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Maan Barua explores the fraught politics of dwelling between elephants and villagers on land that once harbored colonial plantations in northeastern India, showing how the legacies of colonialism impact the relationship between human and nonhuman life in a time of global environmental upheaval.

Maan Barua explores the fraught politics of dwelling between elephants and villagers on land that once harbored colonial plantations in northeastern India, showing how the legacies of colonialism impact the relationship between human and nonhuman life in a time of global environmental upheaval.

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A journey through unexplored spaces that foreground new ways of inhabiting the urban  One of the fundamental dimensions of urbanization is its radical transformation of nature. Today domestic animals make up more than twice the biomass of people on the planet, and cities are replete with nonhuman life. Yet current accounts of the urban remain resolutely anthropocentric. Lively Cities departs from conventions of urban studies to argue that citi...

This book focuses on human-elephant encounters and relationships, showing how these have been politicized and pose challenges for rural development and conservation. It draws from a sustained ethnography of human-elephant conflict and co-operation in India to address key questions at the interface of biodiversity conservation, animal and development geographies.