Activism and Agency in India: Nurturing Resistance in the Tea Plantations

ISBN-13: 9780367885731 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 204 str.

Supurna Banerjee

Opis

This book is the first interdisciplinary and intersectional work examining the nature of victimhood and agency among women workers on tea-plantations in North Bengal, India. The author views tea plantations as social spaces, rather than only economic units of production. Focusing on the lived experiences of the workers from the perspective of th

Spis treści

1. Introduction

2. Intersectionality, Labour and Agency: Theoretical Paradigms

3. Scene Setting

4. Identity and Belonging through the Lens of Intersectionality

5. Understanding the Plantations within a Gendered Space

6. Understanding the Plantation as a Gendered Space

7. Understanding Agency

8. Understanding Everyday Activism

9. Conclusion

O autorze

Supurna Banerjee is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, India. She received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh.