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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"subaltern resistance"”.
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The Compatibility of Containment and Autonomy in Lydia Minatoya's The Strangeness of Beauty
<p>Subaltern studies has overwhelmingly privileged subaltern resistance as a means for the subaltern to attain autonomy. While the group's project has made breakthroughs in rewriting Indian subaltern history, their emphasis on resistance to oppression has also essentialized what it means to create …
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Rivers of Resistance: Aid, Activism and Energy in Cambodia and Myanmar
… Minister Hun Sen has eviscerated civil society resistance in Cambodia and transferred power to his son, Hun Manet. Similar efforts to cling to power by Myanmar’s military were met with revolution. For both countries, natural resource governance has been a central factor in shaping the contours …
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Struggle and solidarity in transforming urban futures: The fisher fight for Ennore wetlands in Tamil Nadu, India
… addresses these biases and the neglect of subaltern agency by examining environmental justice struggles as forces of sustainability transformation. It focuses on the ongoing fisher struggle for the tidal wetlands of Ennore in Tamil Nadu, India. Stretching from the northern edge of Chennai, …
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A new India: Contestations of national identity at the crossroads of postcolonial aspirations and globalized imagination
My dissertation examines contestations of national identity and representation of individual aspirations within a globalized imagination of 21st century India. In analyzing the metaphoric construction of a New India, I look at the unrestrained urbanization that has followed economic liberalization …