Marginality and Its Contestations: A Case of Mining Affected in Goa

Abstract

The notion of marginality in society, emerging out of multiple circumstances may not always reflect in clear binary between those at the margins and the core. Instead, there may be possibilities of contestations within the marginal owing to the divergent impact a particular situation may have on these groups. Tripathi looks at such contestations within using the agitation by mining affected in Cavrem, a small village in Goa in western India. He does this by looking at both the contestations between groups affected by mining closure through some primary and secondary data on the village. In the process he also explores the possibility of convergence between the diverse claims and contestations that perhaps could bring positive outcome for all.