Globalization

How does Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People function as a counter history (or alternative history) to the official history of the Bhopal disaster? To what extent can this form of “counter-hegemonic” narrative compare with farmers’ movements like tebhaga and navdanya (see Shiva)? If globalization is a form of ecological imperialism (Shrivastava and Kothari), how does Animal’s People function as an anti-imperial narrative? If novels (and literature in general) are considered a history from below (as opposed to top down methods), how does Indra Sinha achieve this “subaltern” history through his narrator Animal? What is gained and what is lost in fictionalizing the worst industrial disaster that the world has seen?

λ Paul Wapner, “Green Peace and Political Globalism”
λ Aseem Shrivastava and Ashish Kothari, “A House on Fire: India’s Ecological Security Undermined.”
λ Vandana Shiva, “The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply”
λ Shrivastava and Kothari, “Adding Fuel to Fire: Undermining India’s Environmental Governance” (Churning the Earth).* Indra Sinha, “Under the Volcano” http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/dec/04/bhopal-25-years-indra-sinha
λ Alan Taylor, “Bhopal: The World’s Worst Industrial Disaster, 30 Years Later” (photo essay) http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/12/bhopal-the-worlds-worst-industrial-disaster-30-years-later/100864/
λ Peter Evans, “Counter Hegemonic Globalization”
λ Geoffrey Pleyers, “The Global Justice Movement”
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