Intractable Conflicts in Contemporary India: Narratives and Social Movements

ISBN-13: 9780367734640 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 234 str.

Savyasaachi

Opis

This book attempts a representation of society in contemporary India through an ethnography woven around longstanding intractable conflicts — of displacement and rehabilitation, patriarchy, insurgency and counter-insurgency operations, and climate change. Each essay in this volume offers a critical transformative narrative in response to these c

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Transformative Action, The Promise and Intractable Conflicts 2. ‘Flooding Us Out with Money’: Movements against Displacement in Central India 3. News Frames, Conflict and Myth-Making 4. Reframing the Debate: The Tribal Question and Contemporaneity 5. Large Dams as ‘Temples of Modern India’? An Obituary to Nehruvian Techno-Political Dreams and a Plea for Gandhian Ethics 6. Why India Failed the Left? A Relook at the Politics within the Mainstream Left Movement in India 7. Individual–Territory–Movement Nexus in Armed Movement Resilience: Case of the Maoist Movement in Warangal, Telangana 8. Making Resistance: Narratives of Communist-Led Agrarian Movements in Contemporary India 9. Mobilizing for Science Democratizing Movements: Lessons from the Experience of People’s Science Movements in India 10. The Passion of Woman: Sisterhood in Work, Worship and the Vernacular 11. The Climate Change Discourse in India: Is a Social Movement Possible?

O autorze

Savyasaachi is Professor at the Department of Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. He works in the fields of social theory and method, political ecology, indigenous sociology, social movements, and conservation architecture.