Mining and subaltern politics

Political struggle against neoliberal development in Bangladesh

Bibliographic Data

ID6233476
AuthorsM Omar Faruque (0000-0001-5370-0850, University of Toronto, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume26
Issue1
Pages65-86
Publication date2018-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAsian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0218-5377 • E-ISSN: 1750-7812
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02185377.2017.1384928
OpenAlexW2763240124
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited35

Drawing on social movement scholarship, this paper analyses subaltern struggles against a multinational mining company. The Phulbari coal mine is the centre of contention between the mining company and local/national activists. Local concerns about the dispossession of lands and livelihoods and environmental destruction have been merged with a Leftist political agenda on the growing vulnerability of the state and national sovereignty in the Global South. A close examination of the movement's discourses suggests that a broader political struggle against resource plunder and energy imperialism has been strengthened by local community resistance to an environmentally destructive coal mine. Based on in-depth qualitative interviews, I analyse how activists have created new meanings of the conflict to confront and delegitimize hegemonic discourses of capitalist development and modernity

Agriculture · Hegemony · Livelihood · Multinational corporation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social movement · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science · Subaltern · Vulnerability (computing · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact · Law · Mining and Resource Management · Water Governance and Infrastructure

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