ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with a close attention on the micro-politics of gender, mining, and displacement before spreading out to broader theoretical frameworks of gender and Development Induced Displacement (DID). It then analyses how the general DID literature interacts with the mining literature and what that implies for this research. The chapter concludes with the theoretical insights that it draws from the existing literature to construct this book’s investigation on the social and cultural displacement in Meghalaya of North East India.
