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Maputo Dancing Dump
This film tells the story of a young man whose hip-hop dance emerged from the context of Maputo’s biggest garbage dump.
This film tells the story of a young man whose hip-hop dance emerged from the context of Maputo’s biggest garbage dump.
The authors illuminate the power relations between state actors and the local people in accessing fuelwood in Zimbabwe, and how discourses of scarcity enhance these power dynamics.
The authors highlight how the Indian state increasingly views adivasis (=indigenous people) as a possible ethno-environmental fix for conservation, and how non-adivasis project their environmental subjectivities to claim that they, too, belong.
Manish Chandi reviews the book Conservation from the Margins, edited by Umesh Srinivasan and Nandini Velho.