Representing Indigenous Sacred Land: The Case of the Niyamgiri Movement in India

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2020.1730417" target="_blank" >10.1080/10455752.2020.1730417</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Representing Indigenous Sacred Land: The Case of the Niyamgiri Movement in India

Original language description

This paper analyses the representations of the religiosity of the indigenous Dongaria Kondh community in India by international and domestic activists. The Dongaria Kondhs live on and worship the Niyamgiri Mountain on top of which a bauxite mining project was planned. The community&apos;s religiosity became the primary focus of what became known as the Niyamgiri Movement. Activists at local and international scales employed different representations of the Dongaria Kondhs&apos; religious relation with their land, which facilitated different groups&apos; identification with the Dongarias&apos; religiosity, and consequently enhanced the support for the Niyamgiri Movement, which was ultimately successful. The paper uses Spivak&apos;s theorisation of subalternity and Baudrillard&apos;s theory of enchanted simulacra to conduct its analysis. It finds that the representational strategies of the Niyamgiri Movement created space for the Dongarias to voice themselves-in opposition to oppressive power structures and beyond the strategic narratives delineated by the activists who represented them.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50701 - Cultural and economic geography

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Capitalism, Nature, Socialism

ISSN

1045-5752

e-ISSN

1548-3290

Volume of the periodical

32

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

68-87

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85101403920