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Critically analyse the environmentalist movement in Tuticorin, Tamilnadu.

  • UPSC 2018
  • 15 marks
  • Social Movements

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The anti-Sterlite movement in Thoothukudi (Tuticorin) fought Vedanta's Sterlite Copper smelter for over two decades. It is Ramachandra Guha and Joan Martínez-Alier's environmentalism of the poor: fishers, farmers and townspeople defending air, water and livelihood. Its victory is real but clouded by thirteen deaths and an unanswered jobs question.

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