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PROJECT SUMMARY
The point of this project is to document the continuing Farmer's
Protest in India as a means of debunking fascist propaganda about
the nature of the farmers protesting and show that the Three Farm
Bills passed by Hindu-fascist Bharatiya Janata Party are a threat to
farmers' livelihoods across all of India. The project aims to
continuously build upon itself via public input. In order to show
the expansion of the protests across India in both time and space,
data about large district-level protests, Mahapanchayats, and other
relevant gatherings must be compiled. This project aims to
proactively compile information about the Farmers-Laborers Struggle
as it goes on. India is a country which is continental in size and
gargantuan in population, the sheer mass of data that needs to be
collected necessitates collaborative efforts. As people have
organized in both India and its diaspora in coordinated manners to
keep the Farmer-Laborer Struggle steadfast in terms of mutual aid,
it is hopeful that collaboration can also happen on the front of
compiling information and recording our history as it unfolds and is
actively being shaped by our own hands.
IMPORTANCE
The farmers and laborers struggle is the largest protest in the
history of humanity. Hundreds of millions of Indians have come out
in protest of the Three Farm Bills, which will undeniably hurt
Indian farmers by subjecting them to the vagaries of neoliberal
market forces. As such, this protest represents an
enormous rebellion against fascist neoliberal logic dominant in
India.The sheer scale of the protest demands attention and there is no
dearth of the social, economic, environmental, etc. analyses which
can be extrapolated from the assembling of such information.
DATA & METHODOLGY
Geographic data to make the map of India was found
here.
Data regarding district-level protests and Mahapanchayats was
collected via desktop research by the project creator. After
determining where protests occured, QGIS was used to create an
initial map of district-level protests. Going forward, as more data
is collected the map will be updata, meaning more districts of India
will be highlighted, as the protests expand. Data regarding each
protest or Mahapanchayat can be found by clicking the feature on the
map in a hyperlink. The majority of the data is from newspaper
articles, though sources are diverse. This type of data collection
and organizing can be referred to as the
digital humanities.
It is a new field in the Academy but it is an efficient way to
collect qualitative data, especially in a context like the
Farmer-Laborer Struggle in India, about which so much information is
produced daily by media, civilians, and others due to the explosion
of social media. This website was created by Puneet Jordan Singh, an
environmental historan, community organizer and aspiring
sustainability consultant in the Master of Science program in
Environmental Policy & Sustainability Management at The New School
in New York City. His work and interests lie in socio-economic
planning for climate change adaptation, decolonization, and
agriculture. All of the data was also assembled and organized by
Puneet Jordan Singh as of May 2021.