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Research paper thumbnail of Neoliberal Development, Sustainability and the Production of Fictitious Commodity: Some Cases from the Adivasi Region in India

The Oriental Anthropologist: A Bi-annual International Journal of the Science of Man, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of 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

Research paper thumbnail of Natural Resources Matters: Capitalism and People’s Resistance Against Developmentalism in Adivasi Region of India

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...

Research paper thumbnail of Development-Induced Displacement and Gender Injustice: Some Critical Reflections

Journal of Politics and Governance

Research paper thumbnail of Development-Induced Displacement and Gender Injustice: Some Critical Reflections

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.

Research paper thumbnail of Neoliberal Development, Displacement and Resistance movement: The Case of Kalinga Nagar Industrial complex, Odisha, India

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.

Research paper thumbnail of Development-Induced Displacement and Gender Injustice: Some Critical Reflections

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.

Research paper thumbnail of Development-Induced Displacement and Gender Injustice: Some Critical Reflections

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.

Research paper thumbnail of Development-Induced Displacement and Gender Injustice: Some Critical Reflections

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.

Research paper thumbnail of Neoliberal Development, Sustainability and the Production of Fictitious Commodity: Some Cases from the Adivasi Region in India

The Oriental Anthropologist: A Bi-annual International Journal of the Science of Man, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of 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

Research paper thumbnail of Natural Resources Matters: Capitalism and People’s Resistance Against Developmentalism in Adivasi Region of India

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...

Research paper thumbnail of Development-Induced Displacement and Gender Injustice: Some Critical Reflections

Journal of Politics and Governance

Research paper thumbnail of Development-Induced Displacement and Gender Injustice: Some Critical Reflections

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.

Research paper thumbnail of Neoliberal Development, Displacement and Resistance movement: The Case of Kalinga Nagar Industrial complex, Odisha, India

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.

Research paper thumbnail of Development-Induced Displacement and Gender Injustice: Some Critical Reflections

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.

Research paper thumbnail of Development-Induced Displacement and Gender Injustice: Some Critical Reflections

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.

Research paper thumbnail of Development-Induced Displacement and Gender Injustice: Some Critical Reflections

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.