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Politics and Resistance of Coal in Australia and India;
Climate Justice Activism in the Global North and South - A talk by Ruchira Talukdar
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Dear All,
Department of Environmental Studies cordially invites you to the first colloquium in the Monsoon '25 colloquium series.
Title of Talk: Politics and Resistance of Coal in Australia and India; Climate Justice Activism in the Global North and South
Speaker: Ruchira Talukdar, Co-Founder & Director, Sapna South Asian Climate Solidarity
Time: 6-7 PM
Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/94280185368?pwd=4nKicl36LjZjtorw5oXkdeqCAMfctJ.1
Abstract: Since 2009, international climate activism has focused on stopping coal mining in solidarity with local and Indigenous struggles that are resisting coal mining. Based on ethnographic and historic research in Australia and India, this book compares the politics and resistance to coal in the two countries, particularly focusing on the time period between 2009 and 2018, and the case of the Carmichael coal mine in Queensland and the Mahan coal mine in central India.
This book shows differences and similarities in the political economy of coal and creates understanding about the significantly different imperatives and narratives of anti-coal environmentalism, in Australia and India. It not only explores anti-coal movement dynamics but also how these movements grapple with the violation of Indigenous land rights through coal extraction, in both places. Drawing on differences and patterns in Australian and Indian anti-coal activisms, this book proposes a global outlook – an intersectional framework beyond the singularity of ‘stopping coal’ that can encapsulate visions for secure futures of communities on the frontlines of fossil fuel struggles – for climate activism.
Speaker's Bio: Ruchira Talukdar’s research focuses on comparative aspects of climate justice and climate activism between the global North and South. Her PhD thesis compared coal conflicts and protest movements in India and Australia, with an emphasis on the intersections between grassroots and Indigenous movements and mainstream environmental activism. She has worked in the environment movement in India and Australia, in Greenpeace, Australian Conservation Foundation and Friends of the Earth, for over two decades. She co-founded Sapna South Asian Climate Solidarity, an Australia-based South Asian climate justices network, for effective global North solidarity for just climate futures in the global South.
We look forward to your active participation.
Warm regards,
Environmental Studies Department