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Michael Levien
Researcher at Johns Hopkins University
Publications - 28
Citations - 1532
Michael Levien is an academic researcher from Johns Hopkins University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Agrarian society & Special economic zone. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 27 publications receiving 1237 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael Levien include University of California, Berkeley.
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The land question: special economic zones and the political economy of dispossession in India
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that existing theories of land grabs do not adequately explain why dispossession becomes necessary to accumulation at particular times and places, and seek to reconstruct Harvey's theory of accumulation by dispossession to adequately account for it.
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Special Economic Zones and Accumulation by Dispossession in India
TL;DR: The authors reconstructs David Harvey's theory of accumulation by dispossession (ABD) through an ethnography of a Special Economic Zone in Rajasthan, India, where the accumulation generated by this dispossession occurs through capitalist rentiers who develop rural land for mainly IT companies and luxury real estate, and profit from the appreciation of artificially cheap land acquired by the state.
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Regimes of Dispossession: From Steel Towns to Special Economic Zones
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare land dispossession for industrial development under state-developmentalism and neoliberalism in India and argue that the present regime has been unable to achieve the ideological legitimacy of its predecessor, leading to more widespread and successful "land wars".
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The Politics of Dispossession Theorizing India’s “Land Wars”
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that existing theories of political agarwalism do not fit well in the context of land dispossession in India, and argue that such theories may not be suitable for India.