Reframing the Environment

ISBN-13: 9780367553180 / Miękka / 2023 / 220 str.

Opis

This volume unravels the power relations that are masked in the present discourse of ecological sustainability and conflicts over natural resources in India. It looks at the inter-linkages of discourse, resources, risk and resistance in the neoliberal world, conservation, management, science, gender, community politics and governance policies.

Spis treści

1. Understanding neoliberal environments in India: an introduction Manisha Rao PART I Neoliberal governance, environment and gender 2. Cutting the Gordian Knot: environmentalism, capitalism and the metabolic rift Sudha Vasan 3. Nature, nation, science and gender Gita Chadha 4. Building ‘India’s future powerhouse’: discourses of ‘development’ and popular resistance in Northeast India Chandan Kumar Sharma PART II Community, politics and livelihoods 5. Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve: reflections from the field Ritambhara Hebbar 6. New coastal claims and socio-legal contestations in Mumbai: artisanal fishers and the problematic of the urban environment D. Parthasarathy and Hemantkumar A. Chouhan 7. Bonds that divide: urbanisation and the erosion of the commons Hita Unnikrishnan, B. Manjunatha and Harini Nagendra PART III Marketisation and the environment 8. Playing with coloured spectacles: Neoliberal witchcraft as played out through watershed policies Arun De Souza 9. Canal commands and rising inequity Seema Kulkarni PART IV Law, politics and resistance 10. Rhinoceros in Kaziranga National Park: nature and politics in modern Assam Arupjyoti Saikia 11. Environmental movements and the Indian Supreme Court Geetanjoy Sahu 12. Wise sayings from an ‘ecosystem’ community: reflections from a search for challenging neoliberal worldviews on nature John Kurien

O autorze

Manisha Rao is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Mumbai, India and previously taught at the Department of Sociology at SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, India.