Geopoetics of resistance: India's Baliapal movement

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Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 375-389

  Routledge, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1177/030437540002500312     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. From Purushottan Behera, "Maran Sena Song," in For Baliapal, ed. and trans. from the Oriya by Unnayan (Calcutta: Unnayan, 1990), pp. 5-7.
2. See Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault, "Intellectuals and Power," in Language, Counter-memory, Practice, ed. Donald Bouchard (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977), pp. 205-217.
3. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, "Can the Subaltern Speak?" in Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, ed. Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg (Urbana: University of Chicago Press, 1988), pp. 271-313.
4. Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, Ibid., p. 275.
5. See Jean Comaroff, Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985).
6. On the former concept, see Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space (Boston: Beacon, 1964);
7. on the latter, see Barbara Harlow, Resistance Literature (London: Methuen, 1987).
8. From Behera, "Soil 'tis not - Our Mother," in Unnayan, note 1, pp. 4-5.
9. Partha Chatterjee, "Agrarian Relations and Communalism in Bengal, 1926-1935," in Subaltern Studies, ed. Ranajit Guha, vol. 1 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982), pp. 9-38.
10. Jacob Srampickal, Voice to the Voiceless: The Power of People's Theatre in India (New Delhi: Manohar, 1994).
11. bell hooks, Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics (Boston: South End Press, 1990).
12. Kathleen Kirby, Indifferent Boundaries: Exploring the Space of the Subject (New York: Guildford Press, 1995), p. 208.
13. Steve Pile and Nigel Thrift, eds., Mapping the Subject (London: Routledge, 1995), p. 374.
14. Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture (London: Routledge, 1994).
15. This draws upon Henri Lefebvre's The Production of Space (London: Blackwell, 1991).
16. Government of Orissa, National Testing Range - Baliapal: A Comprehensive Report on the Project and Rehabilitation (Cuttack: Orissa Government Press, 1986).
17. Sujata Patel, "Agni, Cyclone, and Baliapal Agitation," in Economic and Political Weekly 24 (1989): 1381-1382.
18. From Behera, note 7.
19. Ibid.
20. See Maria Mies, Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale (London: Zed, 1986).
21. Interview, Delhi, 1989 Maria Mies argues that women's production of new life is inseparably linked to the production of the means of subsistence to sustain this new life. See Maria Mies, "Social Origins of the Sexual Division of Labour," in Women: The Last Colony, by Maria Mies, Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen, and Claudia von Werlhof (London: Zed, 1988), pp. 67-95.
22. See William Crooke, The Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India, vols. 1, 2 (London: Constable, 1896).
23. See Stephen Marglin and Frederique Marglin, eds., Dominating Knowledge: Development, Culture, and Resistance (Oxford: Clarendon, 1990).
24. Conch shells are found in every Hindu home in Baliapal. They are used for salutation and puja (prayer) to Jagannath, the Hindu lord of the universe (whose major temple is located in Puri, Orissa) and to Laxmi, the goddess of prosperity.
25. From Behera, note 1.
26. Ibid.
27. Interviews, Delhi, 1989.
28. In the Baleshwar district, where the Baliapal area is located, male literacy is 30 percent, female literacy 18 percent. Government of India, Census of India (New Delhi: Amulya Ratna Nanda, 1991).
29. Interview, Baliapal, 1990.
30. See Sujata Patel, "Baliapal Agitation: Socio-economic Background," in Economic and Political Weekly (March 1989): 604-605; and Patel, note 16, pp. 1381-1382.
31. See Paul Routledge, Terrains of Resistance: Nonviolent Social Movements and the Contestation of Place in India (Westport: Praeger, 1993).
32. From Behera, "O Badshahi Sarkar," in Unnayan, note 1, pp. 3-4.
33. Behera, "O Badshahi Sarkar", pp. 3-4. Ibid.
34. My interpretation displays parallels with Joan Brandt's, who has used this term to refer to the interrelatedness of poetry, poststructuralist theory, and sociopolitical practice. See Brandt, Geopoetics: The Politics of Mimesis in Poststructuralist French Poetry and Theory (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997).
35. John Fiske, quoted in Arturo Escobar, "Culture, Economics, and Politics in Latin American Social Movements Theory and Research," in Arturo Escobar and Sonia Alvarez, eds., The Making of Social Movements in Latin America (Boulder: Westview, 1992), pp. 62-85.
36. Interviews, Baliapal, 1990.
37. See Spivak, note 3, p. 275.
38. Interview, Baliapal, 1990.
39. Lefebvre, note 14.
40. Franz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (New York: Grove, 1963), p. 240.
41. For a discussion of these different notions of community, see Iris Marion Young, "The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference," in Linda Nicholson, ed., Feminism/Postmodernism (New York: Routledge, 1990), pp. 300-323.
42. See Joanne Sharp et al., Entanglements of Power: Geographies of Domination/Resistance (London: Routledge, 2000).