Ecology and the politics of survival: Contestations over natural resources in India

This study is a descriptive and theoretical discourse of the politics of survival in India, which interrogates the ecological conflicts as having underlying battles of justice, identity, and sovereignty. The three-way conflict between the state, capital, and communities; the historical reversal of common people in the colonial and postcolonial state; and the appearance of ecological democracy as the value system are all traced back. The paper symbolizes the conceptualization of survival politics as a paradigm shift in environmentalism, which is founded on conservation of livelihood and acknowledgment by the application of political ecology, ecofeminism, and postcolonial theory. It connects the resource wars in India with the other realities of global nature and environmental and climatic justice movements by indicating that the best way to achieve actual ecological justice is through physical democratization of nature, decentralizing it, making it reach the masses, and making it become as empowered as the masses, as the moral duty of the masses. Objectives · To sum up, the theoretical basis of ecology is a contention area in India, socially and politically. · To investigate the reconfiguring of environmental problems as an autonomy struggle, as a struggle to obtain justice and identity through the survival politics. · To understand ecological democracy as the inclusive government that is sustainable.