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Desiring the other and decolonizing global solidarity: time and space in the anti-Vedanta campaign

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posted on 2019-01-01, 00:00 authored by Sam Balaton-ChrimesSam Balaton-Chrimes
This paper considers a case study of Survival International’s campaign in support of the Dongria Kondh adivasi community of Odisha, India, and that community’s ultimately successful struggle to prevent mining company Vedanta from acquiring their sacred mountain, Niyamgiri. I argue this case presents an ethical conundrum for those of us interested in decolonizing solidarity: politically effective work rewards relationships and representations that shore up the making of radical Otherness, its valorization, and desires to know and help the radical Other. Rather than simply condemn or applaud Survival’s problematic work, I explore the role of scale and temporalities to better understand the ethical terrain in which they operated.

History

Journal

Humanity: an international journal of human rights, humanitarianism, and development

Volume

10

Issue

2

Season

Summer

Pagination

239 - 262

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press

Location

Hanover, Pa.

eISSN

2151-4372

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2019, University of Pennsylvania Press