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Environment, Politics and Activism The Role of Media
Introduction Somnath Batabyal 1. The (Im)possibility of Critique in Developmental Debates Hanna Werner 2. Chasing the Long Tail of Climate Change Matti Pohjonen 3. Greenathon: Organizing the Social-Conscience of Post-Liberalization Urban India Smita Maitra 4. New Delhi’s Times: Creating a Myth for a City Somnath Batabyal 5. Banishing the Hyphen: The Rural-Urban Divide and Mainstream Television in India Pratap Pandey 6. Politics of Body Spectacle: Old Movements Creating New(s) Stories Shalini Sharma 7. A Coming Out Party for Indian Waste Pickers? Pondering the Dilemmas of Making Local Environmentalism Global Bharati Chaturvedi 8. Not Politics of the Usual: Youth Environmental Movements Kartikeya Singh 9. The Environmental Collective of Goiás Youth Tiago E. G. Rodrigues. About the Editor. Notes on Contributors. Index.
Biography
Somnath Batabyal is Lecturer, Media in Development, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, United Kingdom.
‘A delight to find a volume that blurs disciplinary boundaries, that dares to ask how discourses about development, environment and politics work together . . . focusing centrally on cases from the global South . . . A fascinating set of readings that will help to define a new terrain of research and activism.’ — Annabelle Sreberny, Centre for Media and Film Studies, SOAS, University of London
