Dispossession without development :
Levien, Michael
Dispossession without development : land grabs in neoliberal India / Michael Levien - New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2018 - xxviii, 332p. ; 24cm.
Since the mid-2000s, India has been beset by widespread farmer protests against land dispossession. This book demonstrates that beneath these conflicts lay a profound shift in regimes of dispossession.Using the case of a village in Rajasthan that was dispossessed for a private Special Economic Zone, the book ethnographically illustrates the exclusionary trajectory of capitalism driving dispossession in contemporary India. Taking us into the lives of diverse villagers in "Rajpura," the book meticulously documents the destruction of agricultural livelihoods, the marginalization of rural labour, the spatial unevenness of infrastructure provision and the dramatic consequences of real estate speculation for social inequality and village politics.
9780190915513
Economic development--India
Land reform--India
333.3154 / LEV
Dispossession without development : land grabs in neoliberal India / Michael Levien - New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2018 - xxviii, 332p. ; 24cm.
Since the mid-2000s, India has been beset by widespread farmer protests against land dispossession. This book demonstrates that beneath these conflicts lay a profound shift in regimes of dispossession.Using the case of a village in Rajasthan that was dispossessed for a private Special Economic Zone, the book ethnographically illustrates the exclusionary trajectory of capitalism driving dispossession in contemporary India. Taking us into the lives of diverse villagers in "Rajpura," the book meticulously documents the destruction of agricultural livelihoods, the marginalization of rural labour, the spatial unevenness of infrastructure provision and the dramatic consequences of real estate speculation for social inequality and village politics.
9780190915513
Economic development--India
Land reform--India
333.3154 / LEV