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Explorations, 2024
The paper attempts to understand the problem of elderly people in Cuttack, Odisha. The study asse... more The paper attempts to understand the problem of elderly people in Cuttack, Odisha. The study assesses the socioeconomic problems, health problems, psychological wellness, and abuse and neglect of elderly members in Cuttack city, Odisha. The study applied simple random sampling to collect data from the field. 100 sample households were chosen for the purpose. The study also used interview and case study methods to explore the perceptions of elderly people regarding their problems. The paper is based on intersectional approach. It argues that low literacy, technological ignorance, and physical constraints among the elderly lead to depression. It also found that advanced age creates a barrier to fulfilling unfinished tasks like education and marriage for their children. The dual status of limited income and living in slums increase the challenges of accessing affordable food for elderly individuals. The paper highlights societal issues impacting elders, including financial crises, psychological wellbeing, and abuse and neglect by family members and caretakers, some of which are enduring and unresolved.
The Oriental Anthropologist: A Bi-annual International Journal of the Science of Man, 2017
The dynamics of capitalism changes its form and analyzing it nowadays is impossible without bring... more The dynamics of capitalism changes its form and analyzing it nowadays is impossible without bringing in ecology. James 0 Connor has theorized this in terms of what he calls the second contradiction of capitalism. Modernization theories of development deal with economic growth, which contributes to increased productivity of goods and services that treat nature, humans and ecologt; as raw materials for generating surplus and profit. The structure of capitalist relations, and the way they produce new forms of destitution, marginalization, impoverishment and poverty, are invisible in State accounts that advocate a neoliberal accumulative path of development in the name of bettering socieh;. In this paper we try to show that how the capitalist social formation often neglected the ecosystem and the traditional social structure which progressively induced resistance and conflict. The contemporan; context of neoliberal capitalism appears as a post political condition in which state helps in rise of capitalist frontier which politicizes the whole ecologt;. The present study follows the literature of political economy to give chain of explanation about the societal transformation due to rise of region specific commodih; frontier in West Singhbhum and Kalinga Nagar and at the same time we also tn; to show that how sustainabilihj becomes a green agenda of capitalism to achieve the production goal through market rationality.
From Polanyi to Gramsci and Foucault: Looking at Polanyian Concepts through the Lenses of Neoliberal Cultural Politics of Development in India
The Eastern anthropologist, 2017
The Oriental Anthropologist: A Bi-annual International Journal of the Science of Man, 2019
Capitalist development and its fallout dispossession have been contested in various place-based s... more Capitalist development and its fallout dispossession have been contested in various place-based struggles in India. It has intensified capital accumulation, enforcing the vast majority of population, particularly the Adivasis (tribal people) in resource-rich territories, to displace and has affected their livelihoods by accumulating their cultural rights to land, water, and forests. The prerequisite capitalist logic of investment-induced dispossession has been contested in various place-based local struggles raising important questions about mass mobilization, resistance, politics of protest, identity, and solidarity. The study provides theoretical and empirical insight of the interrelationship between culture, power, and politics of corporate state developmentalism and the way it works in Adivasi resource-rich region. By discussing how different ploys and tactics employed by corporate to establish clientelist relation with nature, backed by the state through policy, have led to pov...
Journal of Politics and Governance
The development projects that most of the countries in the world witnessed after postcolonial per... more The development projects that most of the countries in the world witnessed after postcolonial period have led to alienation and deprivation of large sections of population through the process of displacement. Doubtless, it has brought a loss to all but the magnitude of loss is more severe in case of women than men, as they are disconnected from nature which is the main source of survival for them. Women's use rights over certain lands, which gave them autonomous spheres of control, are wiped out without compensation. Moreover, the losses of forests and common property resources have destabilized women's income and relative social status. The employment generated by the projects comes with hazardous working conditions and low wages, and without job security, pushing more and more women into the informal sector. Along with economic loss, it has directly and indirectly affected women's health, their food security and status in society. Here, the issue raised in the paper tries to interrogate what kind of loss the women faced due to displacement; what kind of policy initiation is being taken for the betterment of women in case of displacement; and what is the role of women in displacement movement. This paper, based on the review of the existing literatures and authors' own experiences, attempts to reflect on the above issues.
The development projects that most of the countries in the world witnessed after post-colonial pe... more The development projects that most of the countries in the world witnessed after post-colonial period have led to alienation and deprivation of large sections of population through the process of displacement. Doubtless, it has brought a loss to all but the magnitude of loss is more severe in case of women than men, as they are disconnected from nature which is the main source of survival for them. Women's use rights over certain lands, which gave them autonomous spheres of control, are wiped out without compensation. Moreover, the losses of forests and common property resources have destabilized women's income and relative social status. The employment generated by the projects comes with hazardous working conditions and low wages, and without job security, pushing more and more women into the informal sector. Along with economic loss, it has directly and indirectly affected women's health, their food security and status in society. Here, the issue raised in the paper tries to interrogate what kind of loss the women faced due to displacement; what kind of policy initiation is being taken for the betterment of women in case of displacement; and what is the role of women in displacement movement. This paper, based on the review of the existing literatures and authors' own experiences, attempts to reflect on the above issues.
The paper looks at the problems of development-induced displacement and resistance movement in Ka... more The paper looks at the problems of development-induced displacement and resistance movement in Kalinga Nagar Industrial Complex in Odisha, India. While analysing the problems the paper considers some of the important variables such as livelihood risks, past resettlement policy and implementation, increase in consciousness about displacement and consciousness of opportunities and differentiation both among local people and outsider to argue how these factors initiated conflict and mobilized resistance movement against displacement in Kalinga Nagar Industrial Complex. It also argues how differentiation, fragmentation and consciousness of opportunities helped for split and decline of the movement. Based on the theoretical premises of political economy and new social movement and following ethnographic fieldwork the paper broadly explicates the political economy of development and dispossession, causes and emergence of collective mobilization and demands and strategies of resistance movement.
The development projects that most of the countries in the world witnessed after post-colonial pe... more The development projects that most of the countries in the world witnessed after post-colonial period have led to alienation and deprivation of large sections of population through the process of displacement. Doubtless, it has brought a loss to all but the magnitude of loss is more severe in case of women than men, as they are disconnected from nature which is the main source of survival for them. Women's use rights over certain lands, which gave them autonomous spheres of control, are wiped out without compensation. Moreover, the losses of forests and common property resources have destabilized women's income and relative social status. The employment generated by the projects comes with hazardous working conditions and low wages, and without job security, pushing more and more women into the informal sector. Along with economic loss, it has directly and indirectly affected women's health, their food security and status in society. Here, the issue raised in the paper tries to interrogate what kind of loss the women faced due to displacement; what kind of policy initiation is being taken for the betterment of women in case of displacement; and what is the role of women in displacement movement. This paper, based on the review of the existing literatures and authors' own experiences, attempts to reflect on the above issues.
The development projects that most of the countries in the world witnessed after post-colonial pe... more The development projects that most of the countries in the world witnessed after post-colonial period have led to alienation and deprivation of large sections of population through the process of displacement. Doubtless, it has brought a loss to all but the magnitude of loss is more severe in case of women than men, as they are disconnected from nature which is the main source of survival for them. Women's use rights over certain lands, which gave them autonomous spheres of control, are wiped out without compensation. Moreover, the losses of forests and common property resources have destabilized women's income and relative social status. The employment generated by the projects comes with hazardous working conditions and low wages, and without job security, pushing more and more women into the informal sector. Along with economic loss, it has directly and indirectly affected women's health, their food security and status in society. Here, the issue raised in the paper tries to interrogate what kind of loss the women faced due to displacement; what kind of policy initiation is being taken for the betterment of women in case of displacement; and what is the role of women in displacement movement. This paper, based on the review of the existing literatures and authors' own experiences, attempts to reflect on the above issues.
The development projects that most of the countries in the world witnessed after post-colonial pe... more The development projects that most of the countries in the world witnessed after post-colonial period have led to alienation and deprivation of large sections of population through the process of displacement. Doubtless, it has brought a loss to all but the magnitude of loss is more severe in case of women than men, as they are disconnected from nature which is the main source of survival for them. Women's use rights over certain lands, which gave them autonomous spheres of control, are wiped out without compensation. Moreover, the losses of forests and common property resources have destabilized women's income and relative social status. The employment generated by the projects comes with hazardous working conditions and low wages, and without job security, pushing more and more women into the informal sector. Along with economic loss, it has directly and indirectly affected women's health, their food security and status in society. Here, the issue raised in the paper tries to interrogate what kind of loss the women faced due to displacement; what kind of policy initiation is being taken for the betterment of women in case of displacement; and what is the role of women in displacement movement. This paper, based on the review of the existing literatures and authors' own experiences, attempts to reflect on the above issues.
Explorations, 2024
The paper attempts to understand the problem of elderly people in Cuttack, Odisha. The study asse... more The paper attempts to understand the problem of elderly people in Cuttack, Odisha. The study assesses the socioeconomic problems, health problems, psychological wellness, and abuse and neglect of elderly members in Cuttack city, Odisha. The study applied simple random sampling to collect data from the field. 100 sample households were chosen for the purpose. The study also used interview and case study methods to explore the perceptions of elderly people regarding their problems. The paper is based on intersectional approach. It argues that low literacy, technological ignorance, and physical constraints among the elderly lead to depression. It also found that advanced age creates a barrier to fulfilling unfinished tasks like education and marriage for their children. The dual status of limited income and living in slums increase the challenges of accessing affordable food for elderly individuals. The paper highlights societal issues impacting elders, including financial crises, psychological wellbeing, and abuse and neglect by family members and caretakers, some of which are enduring and unresolved.
The Oriental Anthropologist: A Bi-annual International Journal of the Science of Man, 2017
The dynamics of capitalism changes its form and analyzing it nowadays is impossible without bring... more The dynamics of capitalism changes its form and analyzing it nowadays is impossible without bringing in ecology. James 0 Connor has theorized this in terms of what he calls the second contradiction of capitalism. Modernization theories of development deal with economic growth, which contributes to increased productivity of goods and services that treat nature, humans and ecologt; as raw materials for generating surplus and profit. The structure of capitalist relations, and the way they produce new forms of destitution, marginalization, impoverishment and poverty, are invisible in State accounts that advocate a neoliberal accumulative path of development in the name of bettering socieh;. In this paper we try to show that how the capitalist social formation often neglected the ecosystem and the traditional social structure which progressively induced resistance and conflict. The contemporan; context of neoliberal capitalism appears as a post political condition in which state helps in rise of capitalist frontier which politicizes the whole ecologt;. The present study follows the literature of political economy to give chain of explanation about the societal transformation due to rise of region specific commodih; frontier in West Singhbhum and Kalinga Nagar and at the same time we also tn; to show that how sustainabilihj becomes a green agenda of capitalism to achieve the production goal through market rationality.
From Polanyi to Gramsci and Foucault: Looking at Polanyian Concepts through the Lenses of Neoliberal Cultural Politics of Development in India
The Eastern anthropologist, 2017
The Oriental Anthropologist: A Bi-annual International Journal of the Science of Man, 2019
Capitalist development and its fallout dispossession have been contested in various place-based s... more Capitalist development and its fallout dispossession have been contested in various place-based struggles in India. It has intensified capital accumulation, enforcing the vast majority of population, particularly the Adivasis (tribal people) in resource-rich territories, to displace and has affected their livelihoods by accumulating their cultural rights to land, water, and forests. The prerequisite capitalist logic of investment-induced dispossession has been contested in various place-based local struggles raising important questions about mass mobilization, resistance, politics of protest, identity, and solidarity. The study provides theoretical and empirical insight of the interrelationship between culture, power, and politics of corporate state developmentalism and the way it works in Adivasi resource-rich region. By discussing how different ploys and tactics employed by corporate to establish clientelist relation with nature, backed by the state through policy, have led to pov...
Journal of Politics and Governance
The development projects that most of the countries in the world witnessed after postcolonial per... more The development projects that most of the countries in the world witnessed after postcolonial period have led to alienation and deprivation of large sections of population through the process of displacement. Doubtless, it has brought a loss to all but the magnitude of loss is more severe in case of women than men, as they are disconnected from nature which is the main source of survival for them. Women's use rights over certain lands, which gave them autonomous spheres of control, are wiped out without compensation. Moreover, the losses of forests and common property resources have destabilized women's income and relative social status. The employment generated by the projects comes with hazardous working conditions and low wages, and without job security, pushing more and more women into the informal sector. Along with economic loss, it has directly and indirectly affected women's health, their food security and status in society. Here, the issue raised in the paper tries to interrogate what kind of loss the women faced due to displacement; what kind of policy initiation is being taken for the betterment of women in case of displacement; and what is the role of women in displacement movement. This paper, based on the review of the existing literatures and authors' own experiences, attempts to reflect on the above issues.
The development projects that most of the countries in the world witnessed after post-colonial pe... more The development projects that most of the countries in the world witnessed after post-colonial period have led to alienation and deprivation of large sections of population through the process of displacement. Doubtless, it has brought a loss to all but the magnitude of loss is more severe in case of women than men, as they are disconnected from nature which is the main source of survival for them. Women's use rights over certain lands, which gave them autonomous spheres of control, are wiped out without compensation. Moreover, the losses of forests and common property resources have destabilized women's income and relative social status. The employment generated by the projects comes with hazardous working conditions and low wages, and without job security, pushing more and more women into the informal sector. Along with economic loss, it has directly and indirectly affected women's health, their food security and status in society. Here, the issue raised in the paper tries to interrogate what kind of loss the women faced due to displacement; what kind of policy initiation is being taken for the betterment of women in case of displacement; and what is the role of women in displacement movement. This paper, based on the review of the existing literatures and authors' own experiences, attempts to reflect on the above issues.
The paper looks at the problems of development-induced displacement and resistance movement in Ka... more The paper looks at the problems of development-induced displacement and resistance movement in Kalinga Nagar Industrial Complex in Odisha, India. While analysing the problems the paper considers some of the important variables such as livelihood risks, past resettlement policy and implementation, increase in consciousness about displacement and consciousness of opportunities and differentiation both among local people and outsider to argue how these factors initiated conflict and mobilized resistance movement against displacement in Kalinga Nagar Industrial Complex. It also argues how differentiation, fragmentation and consciousness of opportunities helped for split and decline of the movement. Based on the theoretical premises of political economy and new social movement and following ethnographic fieldwork the paper broadly explicates the political economy of development and dispossession, causes and emergence of collective mobilization and demands and strategies of resistance movement.
The development projects that most of the countries in the world witnessed after post-colonial pe... more The development projects that most of the countries in the world witnessed after post-colonial period have led to alienation and deprivation of large sections of population through the process of displacement. Doubtless, it has brought a loss to all but the magnitude of loss is more severe in case of women than men, as they are disconnected from nature which is the main source of survival for them. Women's use rights over certain lands, which gave them autonomous spheres of control, are wiped out without compensation. Moreover, the losses of forests and common property resources have destabilized women's income and relative social status. The employment generated by the projects comes with hazardous working conditions and low wages, and without job security, pushing more and more women into the informal sector. Along with economic loss, it has directly and indirectly affected women's health, their food security and status in society. Here, the issue raised in the paper tries to interrogate what kind of loss the women faced due to displacement; what kind of policy initiation is being taken for the betterment of women in case of displacement; and what is the role of women in displacement movement. This paper, based on the review of the existing literatures and authors' own experiences, attempts to reflect on the above issues.
The development projects that most of the countries in the world witnessed after post-colonial pe... more The development projects that most of the countries in the world witnessed after post-colonial period have led to alienation and deprivation of large sections of population through the process of displacement. Doubtless, it has brought a loss to all but the magnitude of loss is more severe in case of women than men, as they are disconnected from nature which is the main source of survival for them. Women's use rights over certain lands, which gave them autonomous spheres of control, are wiped out without compensation. Moreover, the losses of forests and common property resources have destabilized women's income and relative social status. The employment generated by the projects comes with hazardous working conditions and low wages, and without job security, pushing more and more women into the informal sector. Along with economic loss, it has directly and indirectly affected women's health, their food security and status in society. Here, the issue raised in the paper tries to interrogate what kind of loss the women faced due to displacement; what kind of policy initiation is being taken for the betterment of women in case of displacement; and what is the role of women in displacement movement. This paper, based on the review of the existing literatures and authors' own experiences, attempts to reflect on the above issues.
The development projects that most of the countries in the world witnessed after post-colonial pe... more The development projects that most of the countries in the world witnessed after post-colonial period have led to alienation and deprivation of large sections of population through the process of displacement. Doubtless, it has brought a loss to all but the magnitude of loss is more severe in case of women than men, as they are disconnected from nature which is the main source of survival for them. Women's use rights over certain lands, which gave them autonomous spheres of control, are wiped out without compensation. Moreover, the losses of forests and common property resources have destabilized women's income and relative social status. The employment generated by the projects comes with hazardous working conditions and low wages, and without job security, pushing more and more women into the informal sector. Along with economic loss, it has directly and indirectly affected women's health, their food security and status in society. Here, the issue raised in the paper tries to interrogate what kind of loss the women faced due to displacement; what kind of policy initiation is being taken for the betterment of women in case of displacement; and what is the role of women in displacement movement. This paper, based on the review of the existing literatures and authors' own experiences, attempts to reflect on the above issues.