Transverse Solidarity: Water, Power, and Resistance

Raman, Ravi (2010) Transverse Solidarity: Water, Power, and Resistance. Review of Radical Political Economics, 42 (2). pp. 251-268. ISSN 0486-6134

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0486613410368507

Abstract

Conceived as Transverse Solidarity, the Cola Quit Plachimada struggle in a rural hamlet in the Indian state of Kerala reveals how the socio-economic sustainability of communities is of as much importance as environmental, cultural, and political justification for a social movement and its success. The implicit theoretical notion is further enriched and elucidated by the ethnographic narration of a plurality of contested issues and struggles at multiple sites of power. The study addresses how a water-based subaltern movement gradually grew into transverse solidarity within the space between civil society and the state/governing institutions, politicizing them and consequently making allies of them, and how the discursive and material practices of structure-authorities and macro-power relations were contested.


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