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

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-70941-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 581 g

In the annals of India’s history, a monumental uprising unfolded in 2020, echoing the resilience and coming together of large sections of its agrarian base. Instigated by the contentious farm laws of 2020, the Farmers’ Movement burgeoned into a year-long saga of protest and perseverance, ending only in December 2021 after the passing of the Farm Laws Repeal Bill, 2021 by the Indian Parliament. From the initial demand for law repeal to the multifaceted growth of the movement, the book traces the journey of the Farmers’ Movement, as each essay dissects the socio-political dynamics, cultural nuances, and mass solidarity that underpinned the protests, including focused analyses from Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, and the Sikh diaspora in the United Kingdom. This anthology chronicles the ebb and flow of a nation’s spirit, encapsulating the symbiotic relationship between theory and praxis, between change and continuity. It serves as a testament to the power of collective resistance and a roadmap for future struggles, ensuring that the legacy of the Farmers’ Movement endures beyond the pages of history.

This volume is an interdisciplinary project and will be of interest to scholars from diverse fields such as economics, sociology, public policy, political science, history, political geography, gender studies, cultural studies, international studies, architecture, media studies, psychology, and ethnomusicology.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Singh, Shamsher

Siddiqui, Sabah

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sachkultur, Materielle Kultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Ökotrophologie (Ernährungs- und Haushaltswissenschaften)
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften: Ernährung & Gesellschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.