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Activism and Agency in India - Nurturing Resistance in the Tea Plantations (Paperback)
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Activism and Agency in India - Nurturing Resistance in the Tea Plantations (Paperback)
Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series
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During the period 2000 to 2010, tea plantations in India
experienced a crisis and were at the threshold of transformation,
framed by conflict and turbulence. This book is an
interdisciplinary and intersectional work examining the nature of
victimhood and agency among women workers on tea plantations in
North Bengal, India. The author views tea plantations as social
spaces, rather than only economic units of production. Focusing on
the lived experiences of the workers from the perspective of their
multiple identities, the author uses the everyday as the entry
point for understanding the exercise of agency, the negotiation of
different spaces, gender roles and norms therein, as well as acts
of protest. Agency and its relation to space are seen as
continuums: from their everyday, hidden forms to the more overt and
spectacular; from conformity and endurance to challenge and
protest. Offering an understanding of the gendered nature of space
and labour, this book examines the post-crisis period by mapping
the workers' narratives about their lived experiences and struggles
in the times of economic, political and social tumult in the tea
plantations of northern West Bengal. It will be of interest to an
interdisciplinary audience interested in Development Studies,
Gender Studies, South Asian Studies, Social Activism and Labour
Studies.
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