Alf Gunvald Nilsen

Dispossession and Resistance in India

The River and the Rage

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Produktbeschreibung

Large dams have evoked controversial debates about development paths, effectiveness, environmental consequences, and social justice. This book deals with the controversies on developmental aspects of large dams with a particular focus on the Narmada case in India. Based on extensive field data and research, the author's substantial and innovative analysis shows how local demands for resettlement and rehabilitation were transformed into a radical anti-dam campaign linked to national and transnational movement networks. The book explains the Narmada conflict and shows how it is embedded in and shaped by a wider field of force of capitalist development at national and transnational scales. The analysis emphasizes how the Narmada dam project is related to national and global processes of capitalist development, and relates the Narmada Valley movement to contemporary popular struggles against dispossession in India and beyond.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780415558648
• ISBN-10: 0415558646
• Artikelnr.: 29927471

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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