Landlock
Paralysing Dispute over Minerals on Adivasi Land in India
Authored by: Patrik OskarssonPlease read Conditions of use before downloading the formats.
Description
Landlock: Paralysing Dispute over Minerals on Adivasi Land in India explores the ways in which political controversy over a bauxite mining and refining project on constitutionally protected tribal lands in Andhra Pradesh descended into a state of paralysis where no productive outcome was possible. Long-running support for Adivasi (or tribal) land rights motivated a wide range of actors to block the project’s implementation by recourse to India’s dispersed institutional landscape, while project proponents proved adept in proposing workarounds to prevent its outright cancellation. In the ensuing deadlock, the project was unable to move towards completion, while marginalised Adivasi groups were equally unable to repossess their land. Such a ‘landlock’ is argued to be characteristic of India’s wider inability to deal with conflicts over land matters, despite the crucial importance of land for smallholder livelihoods and various economic processes in an intensely growth-focused country. The result has been frequent yet grindingly slow processes of contestation in which powerful business and state interests are, at times, halted in their tracks, but mostly seem able to slowly exhaust local resistance in their pursuit of large-scale projects that produce no benefits for the rural poor.
Details
- ISBN (print):
- 9781760462505
- ISBN (online):
- 9781760462512
- Publication date:
- Sep 2018
- Note:
- Asia-Pacific Environment Monograph 14
- Imprint:
- ANU Press
- DOI:
- http://doi.org/10.22459/L.09.2018
- Series:
- Asia-Pacific Environment Monographs
- Disciplines:
- Arts & Humanities: Cultural Studies, History; Science: Environmental Sciences; Social Sciences: Social Policy & Administration
- Countries:
- South Asia: India
PDF Chapters
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- Preliminary Pages (PDF, 0.2MB)
- Tables (PDF, 0.1MB)
- Figures (PDF, 0.1MB)
- Abbreviations (PDF, 0.1MB)
- Acknowledgments (PDF, 0.1MB)
- Mining Conflicts in Liberalising India (PDF, 0.4MB)
- Adivasi Land Rights and Dispossession (PDF, 0.4MB)
- The Formation of a Public–Private Alliance (PDF, 0.5MB)
- Livelihoods at the Two Sites (PDF, 2.1MB)
- Government Mediation or Facilitation? (PDF, 0.3MB)
- Oppositional Noise from the Fringes (PDF, 1.6MB)
- Habermas’s Nightmare? (PDF, 0.1MB)
- Conclusion (PDF, 0.1MB)
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