Pollution Governance in the time of disasters: Testimonials of Caste/d Women and the Politics of Knowledge in Kathikudam, Kerala

Binoy, Parvathy

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.06.008

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“…For instance, Sanal Mohan writes that in Kerala, 'even as late as the early decades of the twentieth century the [high status] Syrian Christians would invoke health sciences and notions of hygiene to support the segregation of Dalit Christians in the churches ' (2016, p. 75). Indeed, in the encasted popular imagination of post-colonial Kerala, coastal fishing communities appear as recalcitrant 'caste primitives', lacking the (cultural, social and economic) wherewithal necessary to engender processes of modernization and reform, and thus to constitute themselves as modern citizens (Arnold, 2013;Binoy, 2021;Narayan, 2021;Ram, 1991;Subramanian, 2009). Importantly, the negative stereotypes coastal fishing communities are the object of are not simply discursive practices of representation but performative acts which normalize and naturalize hierarchical values, whereby politics of exclusion and discrimination become inscribed in the everyday as both inevitable and necessary (Narayan, 2021;Paik, 2022).…”

Section: On Bio-moral Marginalitymentioning

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Covid on the Coast: Pandemic Governance and Protests in Fishing Villages in South Kerala, India

Jament

Martin

Visakh

et al. 2023

Journal of South Asian Development

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In this article, we reflect on the consequences of COVID-19 interventions on coastal communities in south Kerala (India), and the responses of the local population to the latter. In particular, we map out the events which led to spontaneous protests in a number of fishing villages during the second wave of the epidemic in July 2020. We will show that whilst during the first wave of the epidemic, coastal communities remained supportive of government intervention, such an initial support begun to wane as the epidemic unfolded over time and became more aggressive and widespread. We argue that such a shift in fishing communities’ attitudes was a response not only to the consequences of a more forceful policy of containment of the epidemic but also to a sudden identification of coastal communities as the main locus of contagion in the district. We suggest that the consequent restrictive measures enforced on coastal communities were driven as much by epidemiological concerns as by a media-driven social panic built upon widespread negative stereotypes that have historically worked to marginalize, and even criminalize coastal communities in Kerala. We deploy the notion of bio-moral marginality to reveal ways through which the attribution of specific—and largely stereotyped and negative— physical attributes and moral dispositions to the bodies and behaviour of people belonging to fishing coastal communities constituted the ground upon which the social panic concerning the spread of the COVID-19 virus unfolded in south Kerala, thus leading to fishers’ militant response.

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Covid on the Coast: Pandemic Governance and Protests in Fishing Villages in South Kerala, India

Jament

Martin

Visakh

et al. 2023

Journal of South Asian Development

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“…Failure to engage with such understanding and knowledge leads to local and Indigenous knowledge being treated as data that can be understood in pre-determined framings (Latulippe and Klenk, 2020), and continued vulnerabilities and risks for marginalized groups (Binoy, 2021; Cuaton and Su, 2020; Parsons et al ., 2019). In the projects we reflect upon, we only reflected on local ways of knowing and understanding the outcome of the research, designed around dominant framings of the same issue.…”

Section: Doing Deep and Reflexive Co-production In Drrmentioning

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Co-production revisited: from knowledge plurality to action for disaster risk reduction

Tran,

Kim

2023

DPM

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PurposeThe authors revisit the notion of co-production, highlight more critical and re-politicized forms of co-production and introduce three principles for its operationalization. The paper’s viewpoint aims to find entry points for enabling more equitable disaster research and actions via co-production.Design/methodology/approachThe authors draw insights from the authors’ reflections as climate and disaster researchers and literature on knowledge politics in the context of disaster and climate change, especially within critical disaster studies and feminist political ecology.FindingsDisaster studies can better contribute to disaster risk reduction via political co-production and situating local and Indigenous knowledge at the center through three principles, i.e. ensuring knowledge plurality, surfacing norms and assumptions in knowledge production and driving actions that tackle existing knowledge (and broader sociopolitical) structures.Originality/valueThe authors draw out three principles to enable the political function of co-production based on firsthand experiences of working with local and Indigenous peoples and insights from a diverse set of co-production, feminist political ecology and critical disaster studies literature. Future research can observe how it can utilize these principles in its respective contexts.

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Riverine relations, affective labor and changing environmental subjectivity in Kerala, South India

Sony

Krishnan

2023

Geoforum

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Pollution Governance in the time of disasters: Testimonials of Caste/d Women and the Politics of Knowledge in Kathikudam, Kerala

Cited by 4 publications

References 22 publications

Covid on the Coast: Pandemic Governance and Protests in Fishing Villages in South Kerala, India

Covid on the Coast: Pandemic Governance and Protests in Fishing Villages in South Kerala, India

Co-production revisited: from knowledge plurality to action for disaster risk reduction

Riverine relations, affective labor and changing environmental subjectivity in Kerala, South India

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