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oapen-20.500.12657-282102021-11-12T15:54:38Z Landlock Oskarsson, Patrik land rights India economic development bic Book Industry Communication::F Fiction & related items::FK Horror & ghost stories bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPV Political control & freedoms bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics & emerging economies 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. 2018-11-01 12:09:04 2020-04-01T12:17:50Z 2020-04-01T12:17:50Z 2018 book 1001784 OCN: 1082956486 9781760462512 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/28210 eng application/pdf n/a landlock.pdf ANU Press 10.22459/L.09.2018 10.22459/L.09.2018 ddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71 9781760462512 240 open access
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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.
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