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 extended the spatial scope of
their struggle by building networks of solidarity with
transnational advocacy groups, and how it is embedded in and shaped
by a wider field of force of capitalist development at national and
transnational scales. The analysis emphasizes how the Narmada dam
project is related to national and global processes of capitalist
development, and relates the Narmada Valley movement to
contemporary popular struggles against dispossession in India and
beyond.
Conclusions drawn from the resistance to the Narmada dams can be
applied to social movements in other parts of the Global South,
where people are struggling against dispossession in a context of
neoliberal restructuring. As such, this book will have relevance
for people with an interest in South Asian studies, Indian politics
and Development Studies.
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