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The Preamble of our constitution which was enacted, enforced and adopted by us, the people of India, secures us with justice, equality, liberty and fraternity. Our leaders had held the vision of just and equitable India, who not only have substantiated this idea of justice and equality in the constitutional framework but also proclaimed in their impactful speeches that "the last man of the row will get maximum benefits". Sadly enough, the conditions of weak and oppressed didn't change. In Eastern India, the condition of peasants worsened during 1960s. They were continually being exploited at the hands of landlords. Ignorance to peaceful protests and futile discourses with parliament gave rise to the peasant uprising in Naxalbari village of West Bengal during 1967.

Remote and marginal areas with scarce and vulnerable populations are "comfortable" settings and suitable places for the development of new extractive activities for energy production. Fracking and modern windmills are often controversial activities in marginal areas for native and local populations, with varying political positions from local elites. The new scalar policies associated with the energy project introduce some of the resistance strategies in the form of more than human geographies or hybrid spatial relationships that characterize recent human geography. This paper explores and suggests possible ways of integrating local interests with regional or national policies based on the "health" of marginal populations, marginal rather than human materiality's and marginal more-than-human. ; Peer reviewed

This paper rests on the argument that the much touted sustainable development in the Niger Delta cannot take its proper root until there is mass tertiary education aimed at equipping the indigenous people of the area with appropriate knowledge and skills, which will complement the haphazardly implemented mass adult and literacy programmes that terminate at the basic literacy level (Secondary Education level). The paper posits that, given the peculiar volatile nature of the Niger Delta, occasioned by a combination of illiteracy, extreme poverty amidst plenty, ignorance on the side of both the government, the oil companies and host Niger Delta communities, poor situation analysis and employment of ill-suited panacea (such as handouts, paltry palliatives and violence) for resolving the seemingly intractable national embarrassment called the Niger Delta crisis, constructive introduction and support of community- driven mass oriented distance higher education, such as can be offered by the Open University System, could be the right first step to the gateway of stemming the crisis.

AbstractIn this study, a metal‐phosphate layered/activated carbon (KMSP@AC) composed of potassium (K), manganese (Mn), tin (Sn) and phosphorous (P) was prepared by the solvothermal method. The proposed nanocomposite was used as an effective adsorbent to remove Cd(II), Co(II), Ni(II), Pb(II) and V(III) from water samples in oil‐rich areas prior to ICP‐OES analysis. The KMSP@AC was fully characterized using FTIR, SEM and EDX. Factors influencing the removal process (pH, adsorbent dosage, initial concentration and contact time) were studied and optimized. The experimental process was evaluated with kinetic and isotherm models. The adsorption isotherm investigation showed that the adsorption followed the monolayer Langmuir isotherm model with the maximum adsorption capacities of 25 mg/g (Cd2+), 31 mg/g (Co2+), 49 mg/g (Ni3+), 91 mg/g (Pb2+) and 141 mg/g (V3+). The kinetic studies indicated that the pseudo‐second‐order model is well‐fitted to the process with an appropriate correlation coefficient (R2 > 0.99) at an equilibrium time of 120 min. The adsorption of metal ions on the surface of the adsorbent was mainly a physisorption process through electrostatic interactions.

Southern Africa is understood to be a climate change hotspot, with youth and children most likely to be affected. The region has already suffered climate variability, with increased occurrence of floods and droughts, which are expected to escalate in the future. Despite the fact that young people in the region are central to ecological and social justice debates, they are often depicted as uninterested and excluded from policy and decision- making spaces – especially those living in global and urban peripheries. In this article, I speak to the nexus of youth, social and environmental justice, and climate politics. I do so by unpacking the everyday concerns and negotiations of youth activists in the urban periphery of Lephalale in Limpopo, South Africa – not typically seen as an urban centre or a site of youth politics. Lephalale is viewed as a future hub of power generation in South Africa, the rapid growth of the town being based on the expansion of coal extractivism. The complexities and paradoxes around how youth are navigating their futures in this site of mega coal projects are explored through two case studies: the Lephalale Unemployment Forum and the Waterberg Environmental Justice Forum. With climate and environmental catastrophe producing both shrinking futures and horizons of possibility, I argue that youth contestation and negotiation of their futures hold out possibilities, even with their contradictions, for collective reimagining of urban space and development.



Through the methodology I employed to explore these negotiations and contestations, I aimed to be cognisant of how research is embedded in context-specific power-laden social relations. While it was not explicitly collaborative research, what emerged from the process was the importance of slow, informal relationship-building before, during and after the research, which would be the basis for a collaborative research project years later. This way of conducting slow research is particularly necessary for engagement across racial, cultural and class divisions, as well as for research that traverses the boundary between academia and social movements in this time of crisis.