Borde, R orcid.org/0000-0001-7611-9954 and Bluemling, B (2020) Representing Indigenous Sacred Land: The Case of the Niyamgiri Movement in India. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 32 (1). pp. 68-87. ISSN 1045-5752
Abstract
This paper analyses the representations of the religiosity of the indigenous Dongaria Kondh community in India by international and domestic activists. The Dongaria Kondhs live on and worship the Niyamgiri Mountain on top of which a bauxite mining project was planned. The community’s religiosity became the primary focus of what became known as the Niyamgiri Movement. Activists at local and international scales employed different representations of the Dongaria Kondhs’ religious relation with their land, which facilitated different groups’ identification with the Dongarias’ religiosity, and consequently enhanced the support for the Niyamgiri Movement, which was ultimately successful. The paper uses Spivak’s theorisation of subalternity and Baudrillard’s theory of enchanted simulacra to conduct its analysis. It finds that the representational strategies of the Niyamgiri Movement created space for the Dongarias to voice themselves—in opposition to oppressive power structures and beyond the strategic narratives delineated by the activists who represented them.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) |
Keywords: | Indigenous peoples; social movements; nature spirituality; subaltern; mining; India; sacred land; representation |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) > SOG: Cities & Social Justice (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 22 Sep 2022 15:07 |
Last Modified: | 22 Sep 2022 15:07 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis Group |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/10455752.2020.1730417 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:191090 |
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