Political Ecospatiality - Livelihood, Environment, and Subaltern Struggles in Kerala

Political Ecospatiality offers a new perspective on subaltern struggles and raises the issue of how people with limited lobbying power can still organise to defend their honour or livelihood-environmental ecospatial systems. The book narrates and analyses the historical and contemporary situations that shape and reshape the strategies and practices of larger livelihood-environmental and identity politics in Kerala by drawing parallels from the rest of India and the global South. By employing Kerala as an example, it engages with and broadens debates in political economy, political ecology, and subaltern politics. The book moves through six ecospatial conflicts and assembles three key ideas - transverse solidarity, epistemological coalescence, and subaltern modernity - and applies them as analytical tools to form an overall framework of political ecospatiality.

Summary

Political Ecospatiality offers a new perspective on subaltern struggles and raises the issue of how people with limited lobbying power can still organise to defend their honour or livelihood-environmental ecospatial systems. The book narrates and analyses the historical and contemporary situations that shape and reshape the strategies and practices of larger livelihood-environmental and identity politics in Kerala by drawing parallels from the rest of India and the global South. By employing Kerala as an example, it engages with and broadens debates in political economy, political ecology, and subaltern politics. The book moves through six ecospatial conflicts and assembles three key ideas – transverse solidarity, epistemological coalescence, and subaltern modernity – and applies them as analytical tools to form an overall framework of political ecospatiality.

Product details

• Authors: K. Ravi Raman, K. Ravi (Government of Kerala) Raman, Raman K. Ravi
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2024
• EAN: 9781009337397
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0933739-7
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, 21st Century, India, Kerala, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Environmental Economics, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Environmental policy & protocols, Environmental policy and protocols, Green politics / ecopolitics / environmentalism, For graduate / post-graduate and equivalents