Differential Subalterns in the Niyamgiri Movement in India

Autor: Radhika Borde
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Interventions, 19(4), 566-582
Interventions 19 (2017) 4
ISSN: 1469-929X
1369-801X
DOI: 10.1080/1369801x.2017.1293553
Popis: This essay discusses the politics of the non-Adivasi activists who participated in the Niyamgiri movement in the state of Odisha in India, which was aimed at preventing the mining of a mountain which an Adivasi community that lived on it considered sacred. It argues that these non-Adivasi activists were differentially subaltern, that some of them were as marginalized as the subaltern Adivasis they were representing and that they viewed the Adivasis through a mythopoeic lens. With the help of these arguments, it critiques some of the views of postcolonial scholar Gayatri Spivak pertaining to the representation of subalterns by activists.
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