Dispossession and Resistance in India: The River and the Rage - Softcover

Buch 16�von 42: Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies

Nilsen, Alf Gunvald

9789350022498: Dispossession and Resistance in India: The River and the Rage

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ISBN 10: 9350022494 ISBN 13: 9789350022498

Verlag: Aakar Books, 2013

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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 contempo

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