TY - JOUR
T1 - An Open Pit of Procedural Violence
T2 - Insights From an Indigenous Struggle Against Coal Mining in Jharkhand, India
AU - Roy, Brototi
AU - Monippally, George
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Indigenous communities are at the forefront of many environmental conflicts in India. The involvement of indigenous communities in such conflicts and the subsequent struggles give rise to multiple levels of oppression due to historical and social relations of exclusion and marginalisation. This article traces an in-depth history of a particular struggle for community forest rights and against coal mining in eastern India, involving indigenous people. The analysis is based on fieldwork consisting of in-depth interviews and direct observation, as well as an extensive survey of secondary literature, including grey literature. This paper concludes that applying concepts developed in the Global North, such as procedural justice, without recognising the vastly different socio-political, cultural and historical contexts, leads to a coloniality of knowledge. To counter this, the article introduces the idea of procedural violence instead, emphasising the overwhelming experience of oppression, whereby direct and structural violences sustain procedural injustices. The article also makes the case for a more methodologically diverse, theoretically plural practice of scholarship on environmental justice activism.
AB - Indigenous communities are at the forefront of many environmental conflicts in India. The involvement of indigenous communities in such conflicts and the subsequent struggles give rise to multiple levels of oppression due to historical and social relations of exclusion and marginalisation. This article traces an in-depth history of a particular struggle for community forest rights and against coal mining in eastern India, involving indigenous people. The analysis is based on fieldwork consisting of in-depth interviews and direct observation, as well as an extensive survey of secondary literature, including grey literature. This paper concludes that applying concepts developed in the Global North, such as procedural justice, without recognising the vastly different socio-political, cultural and historical contexts, leads to a coloniality of knowledge. To counter this, the article introduces the idea of procedural violence instead, emphasising the overwhelming experience of oppression, whereby direct and structural violences sustain procedural injustices. The article also makes the case for a more methodologically diverse, theoretically plural practice of scholarship on environmental justice activism.
KW - coal mining
KW - decolonial environmental justice
KW - ecological distribution conflicts
KW - indigenous rights
KW - transgressive research
KW - coal mining
KW - decolonial environmental justice
KW - ecological distribution conflicts
KW - indigenous rights
KW - transgressive research
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U2 - 10.20446/JEP-2414-3197-40-1-129
DO - 10.20446/JEP-2414-3197-40-1-129
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85203389741
SN - 0258-2384
VL - 40
SP - 129
EP - 156
JO - Journal fur Entwicklungspolitik
JF - Journal fur Entwicklungspolitik
IS - 1-2
ER -