Abstract
Communities resisting large coal mining projects navigate the significant tensions between imperatives of urgent climate action and economic growth in complex and contingent ways. Drawing on empirical research in a mining region of Central-Eastern India, this paper examines how the changing ‘agrarian’ context of rural livelihoods and household reproduction within mining-affected communities shapes the motivations of local anti-coal struggles, and the articulation of climate-change related concerns within them. It argues that such a conceptualization of political contestations over coal extraction points to crucial possibilities for building broader counter-hegemonic movements for more inclusive ‘just transitions’ away from coal.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2145-2164 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | Journal of Peasant Studies |
Volume | 50 |
Issue number | 6 |
Early online date | 15 Nov 2022 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2022 |
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