Politics and resistance of coal in Australia and India : climate justice activism in the Global North and South / Ruchira Talukdar.

Politics and resistance of coal in Australia and India : climate justice activism in the Global North and South / Ruchira Talukdar.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.

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Routledge studies in environmental justice.

"This book provides an in-depth, ethnography-based comparison of environmentalism in the global North and South through movement case studies situated in Australia and India. Environmentalism, consisting of a set of ideologies, politics and imperatives towards resisting environmental destruction, is known to be realised differently between movements arising from different societies within the same geography. To demonstrate this, Ruchira Talukdar investigates the similarities and differences in anti-coal environmentalism through an ethnographic study of movements in Australia and India. She not only explores the politics, narratives, strategies and dynamics within environmental movements, but also their collaboration with the issue of Indigenous lands and rights on the frontline of coal extraction in both countries. The Stop Adani movement in Australia and its collaboration with the Wangan and Jagalingou and Farmers resisting the Galilee Basin coalmines in Queensland is critically compared with an anti-coal movement of Greenpeace and local forest-based communities in Mahan in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Overall, the book frames conceptual tools for students, research scholars and activists for intersectional environmentalism across the global North-South divide. The conclusions are particularly crucial to understand and counteract the dominance of Northern environmentalisms' perspectives and make global environmentalism intersectional, decolonial, and representative. The author's unique vantage point and work experience in environmental activism over 20 years across India and Australia, combined with an extensive and immersive ethnographic fieldwork in both countries, make this a great resource for students, scholars and practitioners with an interest in climate justice, environmental politics and environmental activism"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Print version: Talukdar, Ruchira. Politics and resistance of coal in Australia and India Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025

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