A People's History of the Farmers' Movement, 2020-2021

Herausgeber: Singh, Shamsher; Siddiqui, Sabah

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Produktbeschreibung

The book traces the journey of the Farmers' Movement of 2020-21 in India, as each essay dissects the socio-political dynamics, cultural nuances, and mass solidarity that underpinned the protests, including focussed analyses from Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, and the Sikh diaspora in the UK.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9781032709413
• ISBN-10: 1032709413
• Artikelnr.: 70340243

Autorenporträt

Shamsher Singh teaches sociology at FLAME University, Pune, India. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Management in Agriculture (CMA), Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He has been involved in conducting village studies on agrarian relations and conditions across different agro-ecological regions in India and has worked on rural housing, living standards, unfree labour, and residential segregation. He curates the People's Archive of Farmers' Protests (https://pafp.in) that documents the mobilisations and protest actions of the farmers' movement of 2020-21. Sabah Siddiqui is assistant professor at the School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences, Krea University, Sricity, Andhra Pradesh. She received her doctorate from the University of Manchester and is currently Honorary Research Fellow there. She has worked on the psychology and sociology of religion through a psychoanalytic and anthropological lens in her monograph Religion and Psychoanalysis in India (2016). Most recently, she has co-edited a special issue on Psychoanalytic Perspectives on South Asia (2024) for the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Why do we need a people's history of the Farmers' Movement? 2. Farm
protests take the country by storm 3. The Anti-Farm Law Movement and the
Agrarian Question in India 4. Deepening ties with the homeland: Multiple
dimensions of the UK Sikh diaspora's role in the farmers' protest 5.
Farmers' Morcha 2020-21: Background, Achievements and Challenges 6.
Protest-landscape of Farmers' Movement in Haryana 7. Acquiescence and
Assertion: The Kisan Andolan and a changing Socio-political landscape in
Uttar Pradesh 8. Making of Farmers' Resistance in Northern Rajasthan: A
Study of Shahjahanpur Border Protest 9. Farmers' Protests in Rajasthan:
Continuing a Historic Legacy 10. The Farmers' Protests in Maharashtra 11.
Loh langar tapde rahen: Revolution and food in the Farmers' Movement 12.
Women and Songmaking in the Anti Farm Laws Movement: A Case Study of the
Badowal Toll Plaza in Haryana 13. Re-appropriation of Space: Creation of
temporary counter space for protest at Tikri 14. Uploading Tractor to
Twitter: How protesters used media during farmers' movement 15. Protest
Songs of Identity and Existence in the Peasants' Movement