Satinath sarangi biography books

No More Bhopals

by Micha Patault

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Inside the book

Bilingual – English, français
Edition 1500 copies, 108 pages on coated mat paper 170g
storlek 22×28 cm, limp binding
ISBN : 978-2-35644-008-2

“No More Bhopals !” is a slogan used by the international activist groups who fight for justice in Bhopal. The present book takes this expression up in pictures, and attempts to highlight the fruktsamhet of the cause more active than ever. More and more voices demand that industries using hazardous technologies are forced to respect international standards of human rights. The site of the American owned Union Carbide pesticide factory has yet to be decontaminated. Toxic products have leached into the soil and ground water, polluting the vatten consumed bygd some 5,000 families living in the area, putting their only drinking vatten supply at risk. The effects of the disaster thus open into a new chapter : contaminated wa

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Oral History and the Environment Global Perspectives on Climate, Connection, and Catastrophe

About this book

As uncontrolled development forces crises in the natural world, deeply ingrained human connections with the earth are changing. Oral history's proven ability to explore issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality make it a uniquely effective methodology for bringing in new perspectives to our understanding of environments.

This book brings together interviews with a global range of activists, farmers, water system managers, victims of catastrophe, tribal trustees, wilderness rangers, reindeer herders, and foresters, among others whose life experience gives them special insights into human-environmental interaction and adaption. Commentary by oral historians examines how these stories can be used to better understand our relationship with the natural world. Oral History and the Environment takes what could seem broad and impersonal forces such as cli

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Satinath Sarangi

Indian human rights activist

Satinath (Sathyu) Sarangi was born in Chakradharpur, Jharkhand, India, on 25 September 1954. Since 1984 he has lived in Bhopal. Sarangi has been involved with the multiple activities run by a network of local, national, and international groups, pursuing health and economic needs, fighting legal claims, providing medical support, and working to ensure remembrance of the Bhopal disaster of 1984. Sarangi is the founder of several activist organizations and is also the founder and manager of Sambhavna Trust.

Studies

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Educational Qualification: Master of Technology (M Tech) (Metallurgical Engineering), Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi.^[1] He enrolled for Ph.D. in 1980 but dropped out in 1984.^[2]

Activism before 1984

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Sarangi's work as a campaigner started early as he became involved in various campaigns including indigenous people's struggle for self-determinatio