Subaltern Movements in India
Title | Subaltern Movements in India PDF eBook |
Author | Manisha Desai |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2015-09-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317382781 |
Social struggles in India target both the state and private corporations. Three subaltern struggles against development in Gujarat, India, succeeded, to varying degrees, due to legalism from below and translocal solidarity, but that success has been compromised by its gendered geographies. Based on extensive field research, this book examines the reasons for the three social movements succeess. It analyses the contradictory reality of the deepening of democracy along with coercive state measures in the era of neoliberal development, the importance of the legal changes in the state, the nature of the local fields of protest, and the translocal field of protest in contemporary subaltern protests. Addressing gender inequalities within and outside the struggle, the author shows that despite subaltern women having symbolic visibility in the public spaces of the struggles – such as rallies, protests, and meetings with government officials – they are absent from the private spaces of decision-making and collective dialogues. This book offers a new approach on the politics of social movements in contemporary India by discussing the nuanced relationship between development and democracy, social justice and gender justice. It will be of interest to academics in the field of Development and Gender studies, Studies of social movements and South Asian Studies.
Subaltern Movements in India
Title | Subaltern Movements in India PDF eBook |
Author | Manisha Desai |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2015-09-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 131738279X |
Social struggles in India target both the state and private corporations. Three subaltern struggles against development in Gujarat, India, succeeded, to varying degrees, due to legalism from below and translocal solidarity, but that success has been compromised by its gendered geographies. Based on extensive field research, this book examines the reasons for the three social movements succeess. It analyses the contradictory reality of the deepening of democracy along with coercive state measures in the era of neoliberal development, the importance of the legal changes in the state, the nature of the local fields of protest, and the translocal field of protest in contemporary subaltern protests. Addressing gender inequalities within and outside the struggle, the author shows that despite subaltern women having symbolic visibility in the public spaces of the struggles – such as rallies, protests, and meetings with government officials – they are absent from the private spaces of decision-making and collective dialogues. This book offers a new approach on the politics of social movements in contemporary India by discussing the nuanced relationship between development and democracy, social justice and gender justice. It will be of interest to academics in the field of Development and Gender studies, Studies of social movements and South Asian Studies.
The Subaltern Indian Woman
Title | The Subaltern Indian Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Prem Misir |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2017-11-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9811051666 |
This book focuses on subjugated indentured Indian women, who are constantly faced with race, gender, caste, and class oppression and inequality on overseas European-owned plantations, but who are also armed with latent links to the women’s abolition movements in the homeland. Also examining their post-indenture life, it employs a paradigm of male-dominated Indian women in India at the margins of an enduringly patriarchal society, a persisting backdrop to the huge 19th century post-slavery movement of the agricultural indentured workforce drawn largely from India. This book depicts the antithetical and contradictory explanations for the indentured Indian women’s cries, degradation and dehumanization and how the politics of change and control impacted their social organization and its legacy. The book owes its origins to the 2017 centennial commemorative event celebrating 100 years of the abolition of the indenture system of Indian labor that victimized and dehumanized Indians from 1834 through 1917.
Farmers, Subalterns, and Activists
Title | Farmers, Subalterns, and Activists PDF eBook |
Author | Trent Brown |
Publisher | |
Pages | 215 |
Release | 2018-07-05 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1108425100 |
In theory, chemical-free sustainable agriculture not only has ecological benefits, but also social and economic benefits for rural communities. By removing farmers' expenses on chemical inputs, it provides them with greater autonomy and challenges the status quo, where corporations dominate food systems. In practice, however, organisations promoting sustainable agriculture often maintain connections with powerful institutions and individuals, who have vested interests in maintaining the status quo. This book explores this tension within the sustainable farming movement through reference to three detailed case studies of organisations operating in rural India.
Subaltern Movements in India
Title | Subaltern Movements in India PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789390870370 |
Adivasis and the State
Title | Adivasis and the State PDF eBook |
Author | Alf Gunvald Nilsen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 2019-03-21 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1108759017 |
In Adivasis and the State, Alf Gunvald Nilsen presents a major study of how subalternity is both constituted and contested through state-society relations in the Bhil heartland of western India. The book unravels the historical processes that subordinated Bhil Adivasi communities to the everyday tyranny of the state and investigates how social movements have mobilised to reclaim citizenship. In doing so, the book also reveals how collective action from below transform the meanings of governmental categories, legal frameworks, and universalising vocabularies of democracy. At the core of the book lies a concern with understanding the dialectics of power and resistance that give form and direction to the political economy of democracy and development in contemporary India. Towards this end, Adivasis and the State contributes a sustained and nuanced Gramscian analysis of hegemony in order to interrogate the possibilities and limits of subaltern political engagement with state structures.
Subalternity, Exclusion, and Social Change in India
Title | Subalternity, Exclusion, and Social Change in India PDF eBook |
Author | Ashok Pankaj |
Publisher | |
Pages | 375 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Dalits |
ISBN | 9789382993247 |