Political Ecospatiality

Livelihood, Environment, and Subaltern Struggles in Kerala

K. Ravi Raman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

260 Seiten

2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
9781009337397 (ISBN)

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Political Ecospatiality offers a new perspective on subaltern struggles and raises the issue of how people with limited lobbying power can still organise to defend their honour or livelihood-environmental ecospatial systems. The book narrates and analyses the historical and contemporary situations that shape and reshape the strategies and practices of larger livelihood-environmental and identity politics in Kerala by drawing parallels from the rest of India and the global South. By employing Kerala as an example, it engages with and broadens debates in political economy, political ecology, and subaltern politics. The book moves through six ecospatial conflicts and assembles three key ideas – transverse solidarity, epistemological coalescence, and subaltern modernity – and applies them as analytical tools to form an overall framework of political ecospatiality.

K. Ravi Raman is currently a member of the State Planning Board, Government of Kerala. He is the author of Global Capital and Peripheral Labour (Routledge, 2010b/2012/2015), editor of Development, Democracy and the State (Routledge, 2010) and Corporate Social Responsibility (with Ronnie Lipschutz) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

Acknowledgements; 1. What's politics proper?; 2. Birlas in communist Kerala: narrative of subaltern river biography; 3 Occupy Muthanga: land, forest and re-inventing indigenity and identity; 4. Waters of transverse solidarity: dalits pulled down the shutters of Global Cola; 5. Politics, epistemology and environmental modernity: anti-Endosulfan as ethical practice; 6. Caste, land and the state: what if Chengara took the place of Muthanga?; 7. Pombilai Orumai: plantation dalits, intersectionality and power; 8. Ecospatiality in the Making?; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	12.10.2022
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Umweltrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-13	9781009337397 / 9781009337397
Zustand	Neuware