Dispossession and Resistance in India: The River and the Rage - Softcover

Nilsen, Alf Gunvald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9350022494 ISBN 13: 9789350022498

Publisher: Aakar Books, 2013

Synopsis

This book deals with the controversies on developmental aspects of large dams, with a particular focus on the narmada valley projects in india based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and research, the author draws on marxist theory to craft a detailed analysis of 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 addresses how the building of the anti-dam campaign was animated by processes of collective learning, how activists extended the spatial scope of their struggle by building networks of solidarity with transnational advocacy groups, and 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 contempo

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"This book is an exemplary analysis of an important social movement against a major dam project in post-colonial India... the book is a theoretically and empirically rich study of one of the most significant movements against neoliberal globalisation, and will surely inform future studies of movements in the developing world." - Manali Desai, London School of Economics, UK Capital & Class, 2011

"The author has written a devastating critique of current economic  planning in India. In many ways we need such an authoritative feeling analysis to validate what might otherwise seem the strident opposition of Arundhati Roy to Indian capitalism today. It provides a very disturbing insight into the cost of globalisation." - Antony Copley, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Kent; Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society

"Nilsen reminds us that the possibility of radical social change ultimately lies in building alliances between different social movements, in developing a capacity for counter-hegemony and posing systemic challenges to the present socio-historical totality." - Budhaditya Das, Department of Social Work, University of Delhi; Economic and Political Weekly

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Aakar Books
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9350022494
• ISBN 13: 9789350022498
• Binding: Paperback