S Ravi Rajan
Biographic Data
| ID | 6298202 |
|---|---|
| NAME | S Ravi Rajan |
| GIVEN NAMES | S Ravi |
| FAMILY NAME | Rajan |
| SIGNATURE | RAJAN S R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Postscript
The Bhopal disaster, as it unfolded in legal contexts in India and the United States, illustrates that the liability regime extant in the world was inadequate to provide redress to the victims of the world’s greatest industrial disaster. The physical pain, the emotional damage, and the inability to live a normal life, has meant that Bhopal has remained a noxious day-to-day presence, restraining, constraining, and defining their very being. In Dec…
Bhopal and Beyond
This chapter seeks to understand the processes that have normalized the pathological and erased the enduring disaster from public notice. It explores why Bhopal has gone from being the potent political issue that it was on December 3, 1984, to a private nonissue, the exact opposite trajectory that many other disasters have traversed. The chapter discusses the factors that have produced and exacerbated vulnerability. On the night of December 2–3, …
The Technocene
Technocene
Environmental Justice in India
Science, state and violence
This paper explores the work of a specific group of Indian scholar activists who, during the 1980s, produced a body of writing critical of the Indian state's science, technology and environmental policy. They have been described variously as Luddites, anti-science cranks and polemicists (Guha, 1988 Guha, R. 1988. The alternative science movement: an interim assessment. Lokayan Bulletin, 6(3): 7–25. [Google Scholar]; Nanda, 1991 Nanda, M. 1991. Is…
Foresters and the politics of colonial agroecology
Science, state and violence
This paper explores the work of a specific group of Indian scholar activists who, during the 1980s, produced a body of writing critical of the Indian state's science, technology and environmental policy. They have been described variously as Luddites, anti-science cranks and polemicists (Guha, 1988 Guha, R. 1988. The alternative science movement: an interim assessment. Lokayan Bulletin, 6(3): 7–25. [Google Scholar]; Nanda, 1991 Nanda, M. 1991. Is…
Foresters and the politics of colonial agroecology
Foresters and the politics of colonial agroecology
Science, state and violence
This paper explores the work of a specific group of Indian scholar activists who, during the 1980s, produced a body of writing critical of the Indian state's science, technology and environmental policy. They have been described variously as Luddites, anti-science cranks and polemicists (Guha, 1988 Guha, R. 1988. The alternative science movement: an interim assessment. Lokayan Bulletin, 6(3): 7–25. [Google Scholar]; Nanda, 1991 Nanda, M. 1991. Is…
Environmental Justice in India
The Technocene
Technocene
Postscript
The Bhopal disaster, as it unfolded in legal contexts in India and the United States, illustrates that the liability regime extant in the world was inadequate to provide redress to the victims of the world’s greatest industrial disaster. The physical pain, the emotional damage, and the inability to live a normal life, has meant that Bhopal has remained a noxious day-to-day presence, restraining, constraining, and defining their very being. In Dec…
Bhopal and Beyond
This chapter seeks to understand the processes that have normalized the pathological and erased the enduring disaster from public notice. It explores why Bhopal has gone from being the potent political issue that it was on December 3, 1984, to a private nonissue, the exact opposite trajectory that many other disasters have traversed. The chapter discusses the factors that have produced and exacerbated vulnerability. On the night of December 2–3, …
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