1st Edition
Activism and Agency in India Nurturing Resistance in the Tea Plantations
By Supurna Banerjee
Copyright 2017
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
220 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Intersectionality, Labour and Agency: Theoretical Paradigms
3. Scene Setting
4. Identity and Belonging through the Lens of Intersectionality
5. Understanding the Plantations within a Gendered Space
6. Understanding the Plantation as a Gendered Space
7. Understanding Agency
8. Understanding Everyday Activism
9. Conclusion
Biography
Supurna Banerjee is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, India. She received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh.
