Graduation Year
2022
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree
Ph.D.
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Degree Granting Department
Geography
Major Professor
M. Martin Bosman, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Fenda Akiwumi, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Eric Winsberg, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Greg Herbert, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Ruiliang Pu, Ph.D.
Keywords
biofuel, carbon, ecodevelopment, Indigenous studies, neoliberalism
Abstract
This research grew out of my interest in the implications of climate action, especially its effects in natural-resource-rich peripheral regions like my home state of Nagaland. This study will be of interest to anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the ways in which global ecodevelopment programs expand and mutate at the micro-scales in Indigenous communities. This includes structural transformations to their Indigenous socio-economic and political lifeworlds, their cosmologies, and their affective relations with their ancestral lands and environment. More broadly, the study draws attention to the growing challenges confronting Indigenous peoples in the Global South who are being seduced by neoliberal sustainability agenda, which insist on transforming its devotees into self-serving environmentally friendly entrepreneurs while neutering their economic agency, restricting their access to their land, and blunting the effective exercise of their political power within their communities.
Scholar Commons Citation
Pongen, Osensang, "Climate Action and Indigenous Land Relations: A Case Study in Nagaland, Northeastern India" (2022). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/9807
