Dispossession and Resistance in India - Couverture souple

Livre 16 sur 42: Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies

Nilsen, Alf Gunvald Gunvald

 
9780415533621: Dispossession and Resistance in India
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0415533627 ISBN 13 : 9780415533621
Editeur : Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

This book deals with the controversies on developmental aspects of large dams, with a particular focus on the Narmada Valley projects in India. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and research, the author draws on Marxist theory to craft a detailed analysis of how local demands for resettlement and rehabilitation were transformed into a radical anti-dam campaign linked to national and transnational movement networks.

The book explains the Narmada conflict and addresses how the building of the anti-dam campaign was animated by processes of collective learning, how activists extended the spatial scope of their struggle by building networks of solidarity with transnational advocacy groups, and how it is embedded in and shaped by a wider field of force of capitalist development at national and transnational scales. The analysis emphasizes how the Narmada dam project is related to national and global processes of capitalist development, and relates the Narmada Valley movement to contemporary popular struggles against dispossession in India and beyond.

Conclusions drawn from the resistance to the Narmada dams can be applied to social movements in other parts of the Global South, where people are struggling against dispossession in a context of neoliberal restructuring. As such, this book will have relevance for people with an interest in South Asian studies, Indian politics and Development Studies.

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À propos de l?auteur

Alf Gunvald Nilsen is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Bergen, Norway. His research interests cover social movement theory and research, critical development research, and Marxist approaches to the political economy of capitalist development - all with special reference to India and South Asia.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0415533627
ISBN 13 
9780415533621
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
252
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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9780415558648: Dispossession and Resistance in India: The River and the Rage

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0415558646 ISBN 13 :  9780415558648
Editeur : Routledge, 2010
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