"This book provides an in-depth, ethnography-based comparison of environmentalism in the global North and South through movement case studies situated in Australia and India. Environmentalism, consisting of a set of ideologies, politics and imperatives towards resisting environmental destruction, is known to be realised differently between movements arising from different societies within the same geography. To demonstrate this, Ruchira Talukdar investigates the similarities and differences in anti-coal environmentalism through an ethnographic study of movements in Australia and India. She not only explores the politics, narratives, strategies and dynamics within environmental movements, but also their collaboration with the issue of Indigenous lands andrights on the frontline of coal extraction in both countries. The Stop Adani movement in Australia and its collaboration with the Wangan and Jagalingou and Farmers resisting the Galilee Basin coalmines in Queensland is critically compared with an anti-coal movement of Greenpeace and local forest-based communities in Mahan in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Overall, the book frames conceptual tools for students, research scholars and activists for intersectional environmentalism across the global North-South divide. The conclusions are particularly crucial to understand and counteract the dominance of Northern environmentalisms' perspectives and make global environmentalism intersectional, decolonial, and representative. The author's unique vantage point and work experience in environmental activism over 20 years across India and Australia, combined with an extensive and immersive ethnographic fieldwork in both countries, make this a great resource for students, scholars and practitioners withan interest in climate justice, environmental politics and environmental activism"--
Based on ethnographic and historic research in Australia and India, this book compares the politics and resistance to coal in the two countries, particularly focusing on the time period between 2009 and 2018, and the case of the Carmichael coalmine in Queensland and the Mahan coalmine in central India.
Since 2009, international climate activism has focused on stopping coalmining in solidarity with local and Indigenous struggles that are resisting coalmining. Based on ethnographic and historic research in Australia and India, this book compares the politics and resistance to coal in the two countries, particularly focusing on the time period between 2009 and 2018, and the case of the Carmichael coalmine in Queensland and the Mahan coalmine in central India.
This book shows differences and similarities in the political economy of coal and creates understanding about the significantly different imperatives and narratives of anti-coal environmentalism, in Australia and India. Through the Stop Adani movement and its collaboration with the Wangan and Jagalingou Traditional Owners and farmers against coalmining in Queensland, and Greenpeace and forest-based communities resisting coalmining in Madhya Pradesh, Ruchira Talukdar not only explores anti-coal movement dynamics but also how these movements grapple with the violation of Indigenous land rights through coal extraction, in both places. Drawing on differences and patterns in Australian and Indian anti-coal activisms, this book proposes a global outlook an intersectional framework beyond the singularity of stopping coal that can encapsulate visions for secure futures of communities on the frontlines of fossil fuel struggles for climate activism. The conclusions help to decolonize climate activism as well as make it cognizant of global North-South contextual differences for effective solidarity.
The authors unique vantage point through experience in environmental activism over 20 years across Australia and India combined with research in both countries, makes this book a crucial resource for scholars and practitioners in just transition, climate politics and environmental activism across the global North and South.
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