Coping with Development Pathologies: Resistance to Displacement

This paper traces the trajectories in different types of anti-dam mobilization in independant India with a focus on the well-know Narmada Bachao Andolan. While the studies on anti-displacement mobilizations produced a substantial body of knowledge, they are useful neither to the civil society activists nor to the policy makers. It is suggest that, in order to render sociology relevant, we need to combine the sociology of movements and polices with sociology for movement and policies