The sacred mountain: Confronting global capital at Niyamgiri

Geoforum

Volumn 54, Issue , 2014, Pages 196-206

  Kumar, Kundan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Extractive industries; Global capital; Global environmental justice; Niyamgiri; Resistance movements; Translocal assemblages

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; GRASSROOTS LEVEL; POWER RELATIONS; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL MOVEMENT;

INDIA; NIYAMGIRI HILLS; ODISHA;

EID: 84901601850     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.11.008     Document Type: Article

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