Social Movements and Autonomy

anarchistische geographien stellt die erste umfassende deutschsprachige Publikation dar, in der geographische Perspektiven und Konzepte mit Kämpfen, Praktiken und politischen Ideen von Anarchismen zusammen gedacht werden. In den Beiträgen des Bandes wird unter anderem an die mit feministischen Positionen geteilten Zugänge zu Wissen und Macht, Diskurse kritischer Pädagogik und die Migrations-, Stadt- und Wohnungsforschung angeschlossen und spezifisch anarchistische Perspektiven auf diese angewendet. Zudem werden ideengeschichtliche und konzeptionelle Debatten der anarchistischen Bewegung und der Disziplingeschichte der Institution Geographie aufgefächert und Anschlüsse an aktuelle akademische Diskurse zum Verhältnis von Anarchismen und Geographieren, wie sie in den letzten Jahren in anglo-, franko-, und lusophonen Sprachräumen geführt wurden, hergestellt.

The history of Northeast India is the history of ethnic self-determination whose seeds have been rooted by the crown and the company. The demands for separate geographical space for the native Ethnic community are the outcome of British administrative arrangement which created a exclusive-geographical boundary among the ethnically different communities of northeast India. It was the background on which the entire northeastern states were seen bifurcated in different homelands in post independent period. The demands have created a vicious cycle among almost all the communities who started demanding for a unique geo-political arrangement which is often an outcome of the reference point they made in terms of other. The state however has recognized the inherent differences among the communities to an extent which resultsinto the creation of northeast that one noticed today. It was again a fact that ethnic contestation often led to a mass violence involving two distinctly different communities which completely jeopardize the process of coexistence among the communities. Therefore, the present paper tries to highlight the demands for autonomy among the hill tribes and plain tribes and their trajectory in different forms and ends. The paper adopted a methodology which is analytical and the necessary references to the resources have been made from secondary sources.

Why are some challenges to the territorial unity of democratic states more tractable than others? The literature has focused on numerous explanatory factors, including the  impact of institutional reforms and government policies implemented in response to subnational mobilization and the ethnic identity of subnational groups. Building on
the insights of a large literature on the political consequences of religious mobilization, this article analyzes a new dataset on the trajectory of 181 subnational political organizations active in India between 1952 and 2002. The article shows that demands for autonomy or secession put forward by religious organizations are likely to prove much more resilient over time than identical demands advanced by nonreligious organizations. The analysis has important implications for the study of secessionism and ethnic politics in general.