Transverse Solidarity: Water, Power, and Resistance

K. Ravi Raman
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K. Ravi Raman: University of Manchester, Manchester, UNITED KINGDOM, Ravi.raman@manchester.ac.uk

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2010, vol. 42, issue 2, 251-268

Abstract: Conceived as Transverse Solidarity, the Cola Quit Plachimada struggle in a rural hamlet in the Indian state of Kerala reveals how the socio-economic sustainability of communities is of as much importance as environmental, cultural, and political justification for a social movement and its success. The implicit theoretical notion is further enriched and elucidated by the ethnographic narration of a plurality of contested issues and struggles at multiple sites of power. The study addresses how a water-based subaltern movement gradually grew into transverse solidarity within the space between civil society and the state/governing institutions, politicizing them and consequently making allies of them, and how the discursive and material practices of structure-authorities and macro-power relations were contested. JEL codes: Q25, Q28, N55, O1, O25, O28, Q53, Z1

Keywords: Asia; India; Kerala; transverse solidarity; social movement; Coca-Cola (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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