Looking beyond the idyllic representations of the rural: The Konkan Railway controversy and middle-class environmentalism in India

Post-independence India has had its share of controversies around mega-infrastructure projects that have pitted environmental preservation against development concerns. This article studies the environmental controversy around one such megaproject, the Konkan Railway, employing a framework that inte...

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Main Author: Sreeja Jaiswal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Arizona Libraries 2018-08-01
Series:Journal of Political Ecology
Online Access:https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/JPE/article/view/22046