Felix Padel and Samarendra Das. 2010. Out of This Earth: East Indian Adivasis and the Aluminium Cartel. Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 742 pp., ISBN: 978 81 250 3867 2.

摘要

In September 2010, India’s government shocked corporations and activistsrnalike by denying environmental clearance to Vedanta Alumimium’s proposedrnbauxite mine in the eastern state of Odisha (formerly Orissa). Felix Padelrnand Samarendra Das’ sprawling but compelling tome, completed only sixrnmonths prior, provides timely insights into the stakes of this decision. Out ofrnThis Earth narrates the local and global links between aluminum production,rncorporate financing, weapons manufacturing, and the suffering of communitiesrnin proximity to aluminum’s mining and refining. The book tells this expansivernstory by following the aluminum itself, from its mining as bauxite deposits inrnrural areas of Odisha to the centers of finance and military control in the UnitedrnStates and Europe. Drawing on their own involvement in mining resistancernmovements among various indigenous or adivasi communities in Odisha,rnPadel and Das offer a portrait of a complex situation of tremendous culturalrnchange and political-economic inequality in rural India.