Abstract
This essay discusses the politics of the non-Adivasi activists who participated in the Niyamgiri movement in the state of Odisha in India, which was aimed at preventing the mining of a mountain which an Adivasi community that lived on it considered sacred. It argues that these non-Adivasi activists were differentially subaltern, that some of them were as marginalized as the subaltern Adivasis they were representing and that they viewed the Adivasis through a mythopoeic lens. With the help of these arguments, it critiques some of the views of postcolonial scholar Gayatri Spivak pertaining to the representation of subalterns by activists.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 566-582 |
| Journal | Interventions |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Keywords
- India
- indigenous peoples
- social movements
- subaltern studies