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Human rights as paradox and equivocation in contexts of Adivasi / Kapoor, Dip

Kapoor, Dip	Journal Article
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2012.

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This paper advances the proposition that a dialectical appreciation of the politics of state-institutionalized human rights in colonial and neoliberal hegemonic (imperial) contexts helps to shed light on why Adivasi facing development displacement and dispossession are unlikely to advance their political and existential interests through recourse to an estatized human rights mechanism embedded in global and national political and economic structures imbricated in the historical projects of colonialism and imperialism (globalization of capitalism). Adivasi social movement inspired 'human rights' (and related conceptions) informed by an anti-colonial/imperial project that transgress these trajectories continue to provide the primary political impetus for asserting the continued place of Adivasi (see Kapoor, 2011 for an elaboration on such assertions). The paper is informed by funded research into 'Learning in Adivasi social movements in eastern India' (2006-2009), the author's relationship with Adivasi and rural movements/activism in this region since the early 1990s, and secondary literature addressing the politics of human rights in Adivasi contexts of development displacement and dispossession.

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Human Rights ; Social Movements ; Hegemony ; Adivasi/Original ; Dwellers ; Anti/Colonialism ;
Empire/Neoliberalism

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Subaltern social movement (SSM) post-mortems of development in : locating trans-local activism and radicalism / Kapoor, Dip

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2011.

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This paper expounds on an Adivasi-Dalit subalternist critique of development and compulsory modernization drawn from a participatory critical-interpretive case study developed from several episodic engagements with these groups between 2006 and 2009 in Orissa, India. This critique is advanced by the Lok Adhikar Manch (LAM), a trans-local movement network of 13 subaltern social movement groups in Orissa. These disclosures are then deployed in a critical conversation with a specific strain of Marxist scholarship in peasant studies that dismisses subaltern movements as conservative (status-quo politics in relation to capital) and as scattered anti-Marxist postmodern populisms that fail to challenge the reproduction of capitalist control of the rural hinterlands.

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Development ; India ; Radicalism ; Populism ; Subaltern ; Subaltern Social Movements ;
SSMs ; Trans-local

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