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- Analyzes the linkage between forced migration, development, environmental degradation, and gendered Adivasi politics
- Contributes fresh material to studies on Indigenous Peoples’ struggles against extraction industries
- Demonstrates the importance of an ecofeminist analysis of such migration-related struggles
Part of the book series: Mobility & Politics (MPP)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book broadly analyzes the displacement or forced relocation of Adivasis Indigenous peoples from the Narmada Valley in India due to the construction and execution of a large development project, the Sardar Sarovar project, which has substantially transformed Adivasi lives, roles, practices, and autonomy, and increased their dependence on capital, market, unsustainable farming practices and urban jobs. Globally, Indigenous communities live within a legacy of environmental dispossession due to economic development that dismantles their mental and physical well-being and a land-based way of life. Appropriation, dispossession, and accumulation is historical and contemporary. Stories of Adivasi people illustrate the horrors of systematic marginalization, in general, and Adivasi women’s reduced autonomy and economic sufficiency, in particular. Key to mention here is that decades of resistance, protests, counter-struggles, marches, direct action did not overturn bureaucraticregressions or structural and direct violence towards marginalized or resettled Adivasi people, but enabled networks of solidarity arguing their rights and access. The book does not attest to state or corporate power, but validates Adivasi agency and autonomy.
Authors and Affiliations
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Departments of Women's and Gender Studies and Development Studies, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Canada
Sutapa Chattopadhyay
About the author
Sutapa Chattopadhyay is Assistant Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies and Development Studies programs at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada. Her areas of interest are gender, migrations, development justice, social movements, political ecology and Indigeneity. Currently she pursues research on migrant incarceration, borders, and autonomy in Rome, Italy. She also continues to write on Indigeneity, food sovereignty, emancipatory politics, and development justice. She has lectured in many universities and research institutes across North America and Europe. She is an editor of Interface and on the advisory board of ACME. She has published in Interface; ACME; Gender, Place and Culture; Population, Place and Space; Environment and Planning D; Geopolitics; and Capitalism Nature Socialism on Indigenous anti-colonial struggles, development-induced dislocation, colonial and post-colonial appropriation of bodies and nature, anarch/eco-feminist pedagogies, feminist research methodologies, migrant agency, and border politics. She is co-editor of Migration, Squatting and Radical Autonomy (with P. Mudu, 2017). Along the way, she has volunteered in homeless youth shelters, migrant students/women’s centers, union, and variously reviewed and supervised students’ writing projects. As a teacher and researcher in Development, Feminism, and Geography, her objective is to get educated on how and why the world has been organized the way it is and how can she contribute to transforming the world to a better and equitable place that offers respect to all.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Politics of Development and Forced Mobility
Book Subtitle: Gender, Indigeneity, Ecology
Authors: Sutapa Chattopadhyay
Series Title: Mobility & Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93901-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature America, Inc. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-93900-7Published: 07 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-93901-4Published: 06 May 2022
Series ISSN: 2731-3867
Series E-ISSN: 2731-3875
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 158
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Science and International Relations, general, Migration, Asian Politics, Development Studies, Public Policy