Based on over a decade of historical and ethnographic research, the book discusses the anti-nuclear campaign's part in 'right to lives' movements, the (re)production of knowledge and ignorance in the understanding of radiation, and tactics to create an evidence-base in response to the...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Bibliographische Detailangaben

1. Verfasser:	Kaur, Raminder ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New Delhi Oxford University Press 2020
Ausgabe:	First edition
Schlagworte:	Geschichte Kernkraftwerk Antikernkraftbewegung Tamil Nadu Nuclear power plants / Social aspects / India / Kūṭaṅkuḷam Nuclear power plants / Social aspects India / Kūṭaṅkuḷam
Zusammenfassung:	Based on over a decade of historical and ethnographic research, the book discusses the anti-nuclear campaign's part in 'right to lives' movements, the (re)production of knowledge and ignorance in the understanding of radiation, and tactics to create an evidence-base in response to the otherwise unavailable or inaccessible data on radiation and public health in India. In the process, we cast a lens on how national and transnational solidarity was both received and curtailed, where processes of neoliberalisation and national security led to the hardening of the 'nuclear state'. This phenomenon came with the direct and indirect repression of the anti-nuclear movement with the engineering of 'death conditions' for its protagonists. They reveal what part the nuclear plant plays in contested discourses of development, democracy and nationalism in multiple spaces of criticality. Altogether, this is one of few books that have at its heart the many facets of a grassroots movement for energy justice in the global south from the 1980s that, three decades on, went on to become an international cause celebre
Beschreibung:	xi, 374 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 22 cm
ISBN:	9780199498710 9780199099979