Society Resistance and Civil Nuclear Policy in India

<p>This book explores how anti-nuclear social movements impact the state’s civil nuclear policy and its implementation by presenting a historical-comparative case study of anti-nuclear movements in India.</p><p>Drawing on social movement theory and empirical methods the book demonstrates that the ability for anti-nuclear movements to impede the inception of nuclear plants – a key element of India’s civil nuclear policy – is determined by the movement’s collective action repertoires the politicisation of nuclear power and the state’s larger developmental paradigm and the openness of state input structures. The case studies of anti-nuclear movements in Haripur Kudankulam and Kovvada demonstrate how the implementation of civil nuclear policy is also determined by the state’s technical and financial capacity and effective international collaboration.</p><p>With a focus on theorisation of social movements and their impact combined with empirical studies of anti-nuclear movements as well as the historical trajectory of civil nuclear development the book adds a new prism to the study of India’s civil nuclear policy and anti-nuclear opposition. It will be of interest to researchers working on social movements state-society relations energy studies and civil nuclear energy in the context of South Asia and the Global South.</p>