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By examining women's active participation in a range of social movements over many decades in Uttarakhand Himalayas, the paper first explores what is it about this place that has produced such vibrant interventions from rural women and produced a gendered geography of resistance. It then focuses on the regional autonomy movement that shook the region in the nineties. Taking women's participation seriously, the paper argues that the demand for a separate state and assertion of a regional identity even though was enmeshed in the messy electoral and reservation politics of caste, women's large-scale participation and shifting support suggests that women protestors were critical in connecting the dots of their marginalization and helped broaden the scope of the movement by incorporating wide range of issues fueled not by any traditional values but by aspirations and political claims to modernity and regional identity. In moving away from stagnant and narrow reading of women's participation in social movements, the paper argues that it is important to recognize women's actions, like all actions, are not pre-constituted or fixed but they are contingent upon and guided by a range of impulses, sometimes contradictory and conservative, but nonetheless historically and spatially constituted.

Despite the vast literature that questions the separation between indigenous and scientific knowledge, rural Third World women continue to be indigenized and their knowledge upheld as the new path to sustainable development and biodiversity. By drawing on ethnographic examples from the Kumaon Himalayas in India, this paper examines the construction of women's knowledge and asks how, in practice, women's knowledge is produced, circulated, and shared. It draws attention to the politics of knowledge and argues that women's knowledge is a product of everyday practices of labor and livelihood that are shaped by culturally contingent relations of power and authority. By describing everyday conversations, meetings, and explanations, the paper shows that there is a great deal of informal exchange between women and men that mutually shapes their knowledge and confronts the idea that women's knowledge is distinct. Moreover, women's knowledge, it is argued, is not a neatly packaged information box but a set of relations shaped in contexts of social inequalities, local histories of conflict, and colonial and postcolonial interventions. While the attention to women's knowledge is welcome, the paper cautions against looking at women as embodiments of special knowledge, and makes a call for examining the cultural politics of power and authority that marginalizes women and their knowledge. 1 Photograph, 23 References. (Original abstract - amended)

Despite the vast literature that questions the separation between indigenous & scientific knowledge, rural Third World women continue to be indigenized & their knowledge upheld as the new path to sustainable development & biodiversity. By drawing on ethnographic examples from the Kumaon Himalayas in India, this paper examines the construction of women's knowledge & asks how, in practice, women's knowledge is produced, circulated, & shared. It draws attention to the politics of knowledge & argues that women's knowledge is a product of everyday practices of labor & livelihood that are shaped by culturally contingent relations of power & authority. By describing everyday conversations, meetings, & explanations, the paper shows that there is a great deal of informal exchange between women & men that mutually shapes their knowledge & confronts the idea that women's knowledge is distinct. Moreover, women's knowledge, it is argued, is not a neatly packaged information box but a set of relations shaped in contexts of social inequalities, local histories of conflict, & colonial & postcolonial interventions. While the attention to women's knowledge is welcome, the paper cautions against looking at women as embodiments of special knowledge, & makes a call for examining the cultural politics of power & authority that marginalizes women & their knowledge. 1 Photograph, 23 References. Adapted from the source document.

Drawing on their respective ethnographies of urbanisation in Gurgaon (now known as Gurugram) and thwarted industrialisation in Singur, the authors argue that plots of land owned by smallholders are intermittent commodities. Following Igor Kopytoff's lead, they focus on commoditisation as a process and adopt a biographical approach to consider the social life of land. The article contends that individually owned plots potentially go in and out of circulation but never get fully commodified, nor do they remain fully non-commodified. With the rising speculative value of land, neither market price nor monetary compensation fully substitutes land ownership. Hence, the landholders express regret and even resentment on having to part with their land. The ambivalence speaks, in part, to the complex attributes of land and the relations of authority, distinction and status associated with it. To maintain their caste-based status, the landowners use land as leverage. They hold on to land or demand better compensation to reiterate the land–caste–power nexus spatially.

After Suburbia presents a cross-section of state-of-the-art scholarship in critical global suburban research and provides an in-depth study of the planet's urban peripheries to grasp the forms of urbanization in the twenty-first century. Based on cutting-edge conceptual thought and steeped in richly detailed empirical work conducted over the past decade, After Suburbia draws on research from Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, and the Americas to showcase comprehensive global scholarship on the urban periphery. Contributors explicitly reject the traditional centre-periphery dichotomy and the prioritization of epistemologies that favour the Global North, especially the North American cases, over other experiences. In doing so, the book strongly advances the notion of a post-suburban reality in which traditional dynamics of urban extension outward from the centre are replaced by a set of complex contradictory developments. After Suburbia examines multiple centralities and diverse peripheries which mesh to produce a surprisingly contradictory and diverse metropolitan landscape

Since its emergence in the 1990s, the field of Urban Political Ecology (UPE) has focused on unsettling traditional understandings of the 'city' as entirely distinct from nature, showing instead how cities are metabolically linked with ecological processes and the flow of resources. More recently, a new generation of scholars has turned the focus towards the climate emergency. Turning up the heat seeks to turn UPE's critical energies towards a politically engaged debate over the role of extensive urbanisation in addressing socio-environmental equality in the context of climate change.The collection brings together theoretical discussions and rigorous empirical analysis by key scholars spanning three generations, engaging UPE in current debates about urbanisation and climate change. Engaging with cutting edge approaches including feminist political ecology, circular economies, and the Anthropocene, case studies in the book range from Singapore and Amsterdam to Nairobi and Vancouver. Contributors make the case for a UPE better informed by situated knowledges: an embodied UPE that pays equal attention to the role of postcolonial processes and more-than-human ontologies of capital accumulation within the context of the climate emergency. Acknowledging UPE's rich intellectual history and aiming to enrich rather than split the field, Turning up the heat reveals how UPE is ideally positioned to address contemporary environmental issues in theory and practice