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Manufacturing Consent: Mining, Bureaucratic Sabotage and the Forest Rights Act in India
Chitrangada Choudhury,Aniket Aga +1 more
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In this paper, the authors trace how substantive decision-making power over extractive projects is denied to India's indigenous and forest-dwelling communities, even as they have clinched rights to ownership an...Abstract:
This article traces how substantive decision-making power over extractive projects is denied to India’s indigenous and forest-dwelling communities, even as they have clinched rights to ownership an...read more
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This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India.
TL;DR: The second half of the collection, on women in the economy, examines women's work in both rural and urban sectors as mentioned in this paper, focusing on the relationship between women's private and public roles in Dominica and Barbuda.
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A faultline in neoliberal environmental governance scholarship? Or, why accumulation-by-alienation matters:
Alexander Dunlap,Sian Sullivan +1 more
TL;DR: This paper identified an emerging faultline in critical geography and political ecology scholarship by reviewing recent debates on three neoliberal environmental governance initiatives: Payments, subsidies, and carbon taxes. But they focused on the payment mechanism.
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Wind, coal, and copper: the politics of land grabbing, counterinsurgency, and the social engineering of extraction
TL;DR: The authors reviewed research conducted between the years 2014 and 2018 and drew a conclusion that the multiplicity of violent techniques employed to impose land control and extraction remains under acknowledged, and pointed out the need for more research.
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Rural land dispossession in China and India
TL;DR: In this article, the work of scholars studying the dispossession of rural land in China and India is presented, each of which offers new insights about the extent and patterns of disposs...
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The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya
TL;DR: The Unquiet Woods, Ramachandra Guha's pathbreaking study of peasant movements against commercial forestry, offers a new epilogue that brings the story of Himalayan social protest up-to-date, reflecting the Chipko movement's continuing influence in the wider world as mentioned in this paper.
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This fissured land : an ecological history of India
Madhav Gadgil,Ramachandra Guha +1 more
TL;DR: Gadgil and Guha as discussed by the authors analyze the social conflicts that have emerged over environmental exploitation and explore the impact of changing patterns of resource use on human societies, and explore popular resistance to state environmental policies in both the colonial and post-colonial periods.
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This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India.
TL;DR: The second half of the collection, on women in the economy, examines women's work in both rural and urban sectors as mentioned in this paper, focusing on the relationship between women's private and public roles in Dominica and Barbuda.
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Mining Capitalism: The Relationship Between Corporations and Their Critics
TL;DR: A timeline of the Ok Tedi Mine and related events can be found in this paper, where Colliding Ecologies 2. The Politics of Space 3. Down by Law 4. Corporate Science 5. Industry Strikes Back 6. New Politics of Time
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Poverty amid Plenty in the New India
TL;DR: In this paper, Atul Kohli, a seasoned scholar of Indian politics and economics, blames the narrow nature of the ruling alliance in India that, in its new-found relationship with business, has prioritized economic growth above all other social and political considerations.