Dispossession and Resistance in India

Nilsen, Alf Gunvald

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“…Incorporating the interests of exploited groups into policy can be understood as part of a social movement process in which the climate justice movement makes claims on the state "within the parameters of an institutionalised social formation". However, as Nilsen (2010) argues that the same movements can, "at other times [challenge] the basal relations of power upon which a social dimension is based" (p. 201).…”

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“…As Nilsen (2010) puts it "social movements from below [are] immanent forces that emerge on the basis of needs and capacities that are simultaneously spawned within and frustrated by a given historical totality -sometimes through submerging everyday struggles, sometimes through making claims on the state within the parameters of an institutionalised social formation, and at other times again through challenging the basal relations of power upon which a social dimension is based" (p. 201).…”

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Climate justice: contested discourse and social transformation

Scandrett

2016

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Purpose This paper aims to argue that climate justice constitutes a contested discourse reflecting the material interests of social groups that contribute to its production. For climate justice to have integrity, it must be rooted in the material interests of those social groups negatively affected by, and engaged in struggles against, the hydrocarbon economy. The paper locates contestation of discourse production in an understanding of social movement processes. Design/methodology/approach The paper is a theoretical contribution to the debate about climate justice, drawing on data (published and unpublished) from Scotland. Findings The paper concludes that scholars engaged in climate justice work should have consideration to the material interest embedded in the discourse. The pedagogical and dialogical work of engagement with the militant particularism of local struggles against the hydrocarbon industry is an important contribution to discourse construction, and ultimately social transformation is required to achieve climate justice. Research limitations/implications This is primarily a theoretical paper, although it draws on limited case study data from environmental conflicts in Scotland. Practical implications The argument has practical implications for work in climate justice, including research, policy development and social movement mobilisation. Social implications This is intended as a contribution to the social transformation required to achieve climate justice. Originality/value The paper draws on existing theoretical frameworks, especially Marxian approaches to discourse and social movement studies, to critique and contribute to the newly developing field of climate justice.

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Scandrett

2016

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“…7 On the contrary, the contrast between the democratic credentials that were foundational to the postcolonial Indian state and lived realities in these communities could hardly be starker: Adivasis encountered an 'everyday tyranny' (Nilsen, 2010) in the form of state officials -forest guards, police constables, revenue officials -who imposed a cruel and coercive regime of extortionate exactions on people who, in relation to the actual workings of the local state, were in effect rightless subjects.…”

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Adivasi Mobilization in Contemporary India: Democratizing the Local State?

Nilsen

2012

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This article addresses the political aspects of the structural marginalization of Adivasis (Scheduled Tribes) in India. Relating to critical debates about the changing nature of state–society relations in India, the article assesses the argument that the best way for social movements in India to advance their oppositional projects is to harness the state to their attempts to deepen democracy and advance subaltern emancipation. The trajectories of two Adivasi movements in western Madhya Pradesh are analysed, and I discuss the conceptual and political lessons that can be learnt from these case studies in terms of the relationship between subaltern politics and state power in contemporary India. Theoretically grounded in Marxian state theory, the article puts forward the argument that it is necessary to move beyond both anti-statism and state-centrism in order to develop a politically enabling engagement with contemporary Adivasi mobilization in India.

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“…FRA has been enacted conferring powers on the gram sabha constituted under the Act to protect community resoures, individual rights, cultural and religious rights. As evident in the Narmada Bachao Andolan case against increasing the height of Sardar Sarovar Dam, issues articulated under livelihood has been primarily seen by the judiciary through the lens of compensation, rehabilitation and resettlement with development being perceived as the sole prerogative of the state (Nilsen 2010). Unlike that in Nagri, this case represents the sensibility of the judiciary in protecting the 'religious freedom guaranteed to Scheduled Tribes and the Traditional Forest Dwellers under Articles 25 and 26 of the Indian Constitution ' (FRA 2006).…”

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“…3 Mahalwari settlements were applied in the North-Western Province and Punjab with the communal ownership of land and revenue was also paid by the community to which the land belonged. 9 Jury Politics is the term used by Nilsen (2010) to denote an action of the activist organisations wherein they contest the legality of land acquisition by appealing to the judiciary. Bhushan further argued that poor people's right to elect their government was a full guarantee so far as their property was concerned.…”

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Land Rights in India

Bhagat-Ganguly¹

2015

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Dispossession and Resistance in India

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