Dispossession and resistance in India : the river and the rage / / Alf Gunvald Nilsen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910956453203321
• Autore: Nilsen Alf Gunvald
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Routledge, 2010; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• ISBN: 1-136-99431-9; 1-136-99432-7; 1-282-58702-1; 9786612587023; 0-203-85497-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (246 p.)
• Collana: Routledge advances in South Asian studies
• Disciplina: 307.2
• Soggetti: Forced migration - India - Madhya Pradesh; Rural poor - Rehabilitation - India - Madhya Pradesh; Dams - Environmental aspects - India - Gujarat; Water resources development - India - Gujarat; Narmada River Valley (India) Environmental conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 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 project9 Whither the rage?: Learning from the Narmada Valley movement process; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 exte