Kudankulam
The Story of an Indo-Russian Nuclear Power Plant
author Professor Raminder Kaur
Reviews and Awards
"...Kudankulam is both an invaluable record of what it means to live with nuclear power across multiple material and symbolic registers and a powerful indictment of a feckless nuclear establishment." -- Itty Abraham, Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute
"Kaur writes with sympathy, empirical depth, and theoretical acuity about the movement to stop the construction of the nuclear reactors at Kudankulam." -- Hugh Gusterson, Author of People of the Bomb: Portraits of America's Nuclear Complex and Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War
"This exceptional book illuminates the social and political lives around the Kudankulam nuclear power plant by adopting a sharply focused ethnographic lens on the agency of people challenging the destructive pathways of capital. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the multifaceted ways in which environmental and social justice activism and collective struggles challenge the very basis of modernity and development." -- Navtej Purewal, Professor of Political Sociology and Development Studies, SOAS, University of London, UK
"Raminder Kaur provides a scholarly, insightful, and empathetic account of the heroic (or should it be heroinic) struggle waged against the construction of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant by the people of that area. Based on years of careful fieldwork, this book is a fitting tribute to that landmark struggle." -- V. Ramana, Professor and Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security Director, Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia, Canada
