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New Politics, Old Paradigms: Urban Environmentalism and the Reshaping of New Delhi

Batabyal, Somnath

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Barbara Schuler
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Abstract

Taking two media-led environmental campaigns in India’s capital, New Delhi, as case studies, this paper argues that Climate Change discourse has followed the patterns of development politics. While globalisation and economic shifts have altered the North/ South power dynamics since the twentieth century, the post development age has given rise to a transnational middle class that seeks to reemploy similar hegemonic paradigms and shape the world in its terms. This class has replaced the notional North; the world’s poor replaces the notional South. This transnational middle class, the case studies highlights, moulds the environmental discourse in the public sphere to suit their own imaginations of urban space and the mainstream media is an active partner in this articulation.

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Batabyal, S. (2014). New Politics, Old Paradigms: Urban Environmentalism and the Reshaping of New Delhi. In B. Schuler (Ed.), Environment and Climate Change in South and Southeast Asia (185-209). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004273221_009

Acceptance Date Aug 1, 2014
Publication Date Aug 1, 2014
Deposit Date Aug 18, 2016
Publicly Available Date Aug 18, 2016
Pages 185-209
Series Title Climate and Culture
Series Number 2
Series ISSN 2213-0519
Book Title Environment and Climate Change in South and Southeast Asia
ISBN 9789004245884
DOI https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004273221_009
Keywords climate change, environmentalism, New Delhi, media

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