Providing a critical ethnography of five different tribal movements
fighting against the mega-industrialization projects in Odisha,
India, the book presents a thick description of the confrontation
of the tribals to the authoritative forces of state domination.
This confrontation, a counter-hegemonic discourse, is neither
antagonistic to change nor anti to development, but rather in fact,
the author argues, that the tribals are the subaltern citizens who
aspire for not only more material and economic prosperity but also
freedom - freedom from domination and deprivation. The book
therefore seeks to answer one important question: how do the
tribals appropriate marginality in their everyday lives in
challenging domination and celebrating their desires, wishes,
anticipations and material prosperity as well as in coping with the
ruins of frustration and suffering. Drawing on long-term
ethnographic fieldwork carried over a decade (2006-16), this book
provides empirical evidences and conceptual explorations on the
resistance of subaltern citizens against domination. The author
challenges current theories of social movements which claim that a
cultural critique of the 'development' paradigm is writ large in
the political actions of those marginalized by 'development' -
tribals who lived in harmony with nature, combining reverence for
nature with the sustainable management of resources. On the other
hand, questioning the established notion of 'marginality as a
problem', the author re-visits 'marginality' as a possible site
that nourishes the capacity of the tribals to resist and to imagine
and create a new world. The complexity of tribal politics, then,
cannot be reduced to an opposition between 'development' and
'resistance'. The book therefore persuades us to re-examine the
politics of representation within the ideology of progressive
movements. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or
distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan,
Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
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