📗 Libro en inglés POLITICS AND RESISTANCE OF COAL IN AUSTRALIA AND INDIA

Since 2009 international climate activism has focused on stopping coalmining in solidarity with local and Indigenous struggles that are resisting coalmining Based on ethnographic and historic research in Australia and India this book compares the politics and resistance to coal in the two countries particularly focusing on the time period between 2009 and 2018 and the case of the Carmichael coalmine in Queensland and the Mahan coalmine in central India This book shows differences and similarities in the political economy of coal and creates understanding about the significantly different imperatives and narratives of anti coal environmentalism in Australia and India Through the Stop Adani movement and its collaboration with the Wangan and Jagalingou Traditional Owners and farmers against coalmining in Queensland and Greenpeace and forest based communities resisting coalmining in Madhya Pradesh Ruchira Talukdar not only explores anti coal movement dynamics but also how these movements grapple with the violation of Indigenous land rights through coal extraction in both places Drawing on differences and patterns in Australian and Indian anti coal activisms this book proposes a global outlook an intersectional framework beyond the singularity of stopping co