Dispossession and Resistance in India: The River and the RageThis 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. |
Contents
1964 | |
Alternative development as a social | |
Accumulation by dispossession and the political economy of postcolonial capitalism | |
The emergence of the KMCS 58 | |
Concluding remarks 45 | |
The emergence of | |
The Narmada Ghati Navnirman Samiti 85 | |
Jury politics revived and revisited 135 | |
The limits of jury politics and the political economy of the state 142 | |
The making of the Maheshwar antidam | |
Factors of constraint in the Maheshwar campaign 158 | |
Concluding remarks 168 | |
Whither the rage? Learning from the Narmada Valley movement | |
Notes 203 | |
Bibliography 211 | |
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Dispossession and Resistance in India: The River and the Rage Alf Gunvald Nilsen Limited preview - 2010 |
Dispossession and Resistance in India: The River and the Rage Alf Gunvald Nilsen No preview available - 2010 |
Dispossession and Resistance in India: The River and the Rage Alf Gunvald Nilsen No preview available - 2012 |