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"From the outset this superb book does more than represent the voices of those maimed or bereaved; it suggests that the social costs of industrial progress have never really been calculated for the poor. At the same time, the book s latter chapters document the ways in which survivors have struggled for better futures, how affected individuals (in particular, women) have acquired new habits of resistance and autonomy, and how oral history itself can assist in the acts of both remembering and analysing the politics of the disaster. Lucid and remarkable." - Times Higher Education
"Suroopa Mukherjee's important book tells how Bhopali women from one of the poorest sections of society on earth have thrown off the veil and led a spirited, inspiring resistance against corruption and injustice by a multinational corporation and its political allies." - Indra Sinha, Author of Animal s People, based on the Bhopal tragedy
"This is a captivating read and the work is an admirable example of scholarship and artistry guided by moral principle and passion. Mukherjee designed it to purposefully and forcefully keep the Bhopal gas tragedy in global public discourse - indeed, to reintroduce it. She works diligently and passionately with oral history narratives from women survivors together with vivid accounts of women s collective participation in activities that continue to press for compensation, justice, respect, and dignity. With poignancy, her brave and timely objective is to pierce the veil of secrecy by using indigenous oral traditions to deconstruct corporate and bureaucratic obfuscation that function as a tool of oppression. This work is an outstanding examination of every imaginable dimension of the Bhopal gas tragedy." - Raymond E. Wiest, Professor Emeritus, Anthropology, University of Manitoba, Canada
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Book Title: Surviving Bhopal
Book Subtitle: Dancing Bodies, Written Texts, and Oral Testimonials of Women in the Wake of an Industrial Disaster
Authors: Suroopa Mukherjee
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Oral History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230106321
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-60811-5Published: 14 May 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-10632-1Published: 20 January 2016
Series ISSN: 2731-5673
Series E-ISSN: 2731-5681
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 212
Topics: Asian History, Social History, Cultural History, Asian Culture, Gender Studies, Modern History