Dispossession and Resistance in India: The River and the Rage

ISBN-13: 9780415533621 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 252 str.

Alf Gunvald Nilsen

Opis

This text deals with the controversies on developmental aspects of large dams with a particular focus on the Narmada case in India. Analysis shows how local demands for resettlement and rehabilitation were transformed into a radical anti-dam campaign linked to national and transnational movement networks.

Spis treści

1. The River and the Rage: Introducing the Narmada Valley Conflict  2. Losing Ground: Accumulation by Dispossession in the Narmada Valley  3. Everyday Tyranny and Rightful Resistance: The Emergence of the Khedut Mazdoor Chetna Sangath  4. Discovering the Dam: Militant Particularist Struggles for Resettlement and Rehabilitation  5. Towards Opposition: The Formation of the Anti-Dam Campaign  6. Cycles of Struggle: The Trajectory of the Anti-Dam Campaign 1990-2000  7. Enablements and Constraints: The Making of the Maheshwar Anti-Dam Campaign  8. Development, Not Destruction: Alternative Development as a Social Movement Project  9. Whither the Rage? Learning from the Narmada Valley Movement Process

O autorze

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.