Left Movements in Contemporary India-II
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Panel Abstract:
While the international business press regularly applauds India’s growth trajectory of recent decades, it consciously shies away from looking deeper into the nature of that growth process. Progressive academics and social activists have characterized this as a neoliberal capitalist growth process and have pointed out that it is built on displacement, dispossession, and exclusion of the most vulnerable sections of Indian society. Faced with pauperization unleashed by the exclusionary logic of neoliberal growth, the people of India have started organizing resistance movements in defense of their lives and livelihoods and for a better future. This is one of two panels, organized by Sanhati, that offer a peek at these million mutinies, ranging from the Maoist movement in East-Central India to the anti-POSCO resistance movement in Orissa, and offer our best hopes for developing a politics of solidarity.
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- India
- Political and Social Movements
- H. Panel Session 4—Saturday 5:00 p.m. – 6:50 p.m
- Panayiotis T. Manolakos—Sanhati (www.sanhati.com)
- Approved
- Anindya Dey—University of Texas, Austin
- Nandini Dhar—University of Texas Austin
- Panayiotis T. Manolakos—Sanhati (www.sanhati.com)
- Siddhartha Mitra—Sanhati
- Sanhati (www.sanhati.com)
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- E332
Panel Abstract:
While the international business press regularly applauds India’s growth trajectory of recent decades, it consciously shies away from looking deeper into the nature of that growth process. Progressive academics and social activists have characterized this as a neoliberal capitalist growth process and have pointed out that it is built on displacement, dispossession, and exclusion of the most vulnerable sections of Indian society. Faced with pauperization unleashed by the exclusionary logic of neoliberal growth, the people of India have started organizing resistance movements in defense of their lives and livelihoods and for a better future. This is one of two panels, organized by Sanhati, that offer a peek at these million mutinies, ranging from the Maoist movement in East-Central India to the anti-POSCO resistance movement in Orissa, and offer our best hopes for developing a politics of solidarity.
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