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Insurgent Difference: An Ethnography Of An Indian Resource Frontier, Madhuri Karak
Insurgent Difference: An Ethnography Of An Indian Resource Frontier, Madhuri Karak
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This work analyzes resource extraction and development as mutually constitutive logics of rule in India’s bauxite-rich, densely forested Niyamgiri Hills. Nestled in the southwestern corner of Odisha state, the region is marginal to both colonial and postcolonial orders, an inaccessible resource frontier. I discuss how Dongria Kondh and Kutia Kondh communities threatened with displacement by bauxite mining – two of India’s 75 Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups – draw on historically oppositional subjectivities to re-envision relations of power between the state, the market and the commons.
Over the past decade, new forms of sociality borne out of Niyamgiri’s anti-mining social movement …