In the Belly of the River

In the Belly of the River
Author: Amita Baviskar
Publisher: Studies in Social Ecology and
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2004
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Why are adivasis fighting the Narmada dam and other development projects in India today? Are adivasis 'ecologically noble savages' living in harmony with nature? What is the tribal relationship with nature today? How do people, whose struggles are the subject of theories of liberation and social change, perceive their own situation? Do their present circumstances allow adivasis to formulate a critique of 'development'?

The Greater Common Good

The Greater Common Good
Author: Arundhati Roy
Publisher: India Book Distributors (Bombay)
Total Pages: 96
Release: 1999
Genre: Dams
ISBN:

Article on Sardar Sarovar (Narmada) Project.

Human Rights, Tribal Movements and Violence

Human Rights, Tribal Movements and Violence
Author: Debasree De
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2023-06-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000905365

This book sheds light on the issues of structural violence perpetrated against the tribes and analyzes the infringement of human rights of the tribes in the neo-liberal hegemonic context, due to which the tribes are going through massive upheaval – induced displacement and dispossession from livelihood. They are unable to advance their existentialist interests and fulfil their aspirations, because of which they are taking recourse to extremism and get caught into the battle of state sponsored militia and forces on the one hand, and the extremists on the other. The mechanism of structural violence is embedded in the global capitalism, which has its roots in colonialism and imperialism. Tribal movements of the central-eastern India, inspired by human rights exigencies, are up against this imperial project that violates the trajectories of state-led development initiatives for the reason that these movements have been brutally suppressed by the military forces. This has given a political impetus to the tribes for self-assertion. Similarly, tribal activism in the central-eastern India during the twenty-first century addresses the issue of violence in nature and the infringement of human rights in the context of development-induced displacement and the spread of extremism. The book is based on the collection of data from the field investigations done during the last seven years, and it will definitely fill the vacuum in the history of tribal movements in the neo-liberal era.

In Search of Home

In Search of Home
Author: Kaveri Haritas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2021-10-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1108834043

Explores new geographies of urban poverty, examining the citizenship, legal status and politics of the rehabilitated poor.

Land, Water, Air and Freedom

Land, Water, Air and Freedom
Author: Joan Martínez-Alier
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 799
Release: 2023-12-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1035312778

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This ground-breaking book makes visible the global counter-movement for environmental justice, combining ecological economics and political ecology. Using 500 in-depth empirical analyses from the Atlas of Environmental Justice, Martínez-Alier analyses the commonalities shared by environmental defenders and offenders respectively.

Citizenship After Orientalism

Citizenship After Orientalism
Author: Engin Isin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2015-10-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317681371

This collection offers a postcolonial critique of the ostensible superiority or originality of ‘Western’ political theory and one of its fundamental concepts, ‘citizenship’. The chapters analyse the undoing, uncovering, and reinventing of citizenship as a way of investigating citizenship as political subjectivity. If it has now become very difficult to imagine citizenship merely as nationality or membership in the nation-state, this is at least in part because of the anticolonial struggles and the project of reimagining citizenship after orientalism that they precipitated. If it has become difficult to sustain the orientalist assumption, the question arises; how do we investigate citizenship as political subjectivity after orientalism? This book was originally published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies.