1st Edition
Reframing the Environment Resources, Risk and Resistance in Neoliberal India
1 Understanding neoliberal environments in India: an introduction
Manisha Rao
PART I Neoliberal governance, environment and gender
2 Cutting the Gordian Knot: environmentalism, capitalism and the metabolic rift
Sudha Vasan
3 Nature, nation, science and gender
Gita Chadha
4 Building ‘India’s future powerhouse’: discourses of ‘development’ and popular resistance in Northeast India
Chandan Kumar Sharma
PART II Community, politics and livelihoods
5 Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve: reflections from the field
Ritambhara Hebbar
6 New coastal claims and socio-legal contestations in Mumbai: artisanal fishers and the problematic of the urban environment
D. Parthasarathy and Hemantkumar A. Chouhan
7 Bonds that divide: urbanisation and the erosion of the commons
Hita Unnikrishnan, B. Manjunatha and Harini Nagendra
PART III Marketisation and the environment
8 Playing with coloured spectacles: Neoliberal witchcraft as played out through watershed policies
Arun De Souza
9 Canal commands and rising inequity
Seema Kulkarni
PART IV Law, politics and resistance
10 Rhinoceros in Kaziranga National Park: nature and politics in modern Assam
Arupjyoti Saikia
11 Environmental movements and the Indian Supreme Court
Geetanjoy Sahu
12 Wise sayings from an ‘ecosystem’ community: reflections from a search for challenging neoliberal worldviews on nature
John Kurien
Biography
Manisha Rao is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Mumbai, India and previously taught at the Department of Sociology at SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, India.
