People's Car : Industrial India and the Riddles of Populism / / Sarasij Majumder

• Autore: Majumder Sarasij
• Pubblicazione: New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2018]; ©2019
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 pages)
• Disciplina: 330.954
• Soggetto topico: Automobile industry and trade - India; Industrialization - India - History - 21st century; Industrialization - India; Populism - India; Tata Motors
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- A Timeline of the Events in Singur -- Introduction. Life Beyond Land: Aspirations, Ambivalence, and the Double Life of Development -- chapter 1. “We Are Chasi, Not Chasa”: Emergence of Land-Based Subjectivities -- chapter 2. Land Is Like Gold: (In)commensurability and the Politics of Land -- chapter 3. Land Is Like a Mother: The Contradictions of Village- Level Protests -- chapter 4. “Peasants” Against Industrialization: Images of the Peasantry and Urban Activists’ Representations of the Rural -- Conclusion. Value Versus Values? -- Postscript. From a Defunct Factory to a “Crematorium” -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- references -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: India is witnessing a unique moment in populism, with sentiments divided between economic reforms that promise fast industrialization and protests that thwart such industrialization. This book offers an ethnographic study of divergent local responses to the proposed construction of a Tata Motors factory in eastern India that would have produced the Nano, the so-called people’s car. Initial excitement was followed by long protests among the villagers whose agricultural land was being acquired for the project. After these protests secured the relocation of the factory, further demonstrations followed, sometimes involving the same participants, seeking to bring the factory back. People’s Car explores this ambivalence concerning industrialization, asking why long drawn resistances against corporate industrialization coexist with political rhetoric and slogans promoting fast-paced industrialization. Majumder argues that such contradictory rhetoric and promises target divided sentiments in rural India where land is incommensurable with money and a site specially marked by desire for middle caste small landowners aspiring to futures beyond agriculture. Previous studies of industrialization have generally focused on either demands for development or populist critiques. Moving beyond romantic clichés about urban/rural divisions, People’s Car offers a single analytical and ethnographic framework demonstrating how pro- and anti-industrialization forces feed off each other.
• Titolo autorizzato: People's Car
• ISBN: 0-8232-8484-0; 0-8232-8244-9; 0-8232-8243-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910480793603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Fordham scholarship online.