2017
DOI: 10.1177/0486613416668650
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Governing Foreign Direct Investment: Post-Enron Initiatives in India

Abstract: Since the initiation of the New Economic Policy in 1991, India’s power policy illustrates the crystallization of a form of situated rationality that relies on capitalist competitiveness and foreign investment for growth and development. This paper, using critical discourse analysis, examines the resettlement of the Enron/Dabhol Power Project to highlight how this situated rationality represents power/knowledge that “legitimizes” prioritization of international capital, erosion of national sovereignty, and faci… Show more

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“…In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the strategic-relational approach to the state by geographers and political ecologists (Ahmed, 2018; Loftus, 2020). In a 2007 keynote speech (published a decade later in the Journal of Political Ecology ), Jessop discussed Poulantzas’ limited engagement with environmental issues and speculated about how he might have approached ecological questions if he had addressed them more thoroughly.…”
Section: Nicos Poulantzas’ Theory Of the Capitalist Statementioning
confidence: 99%
“…In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the strategic-relational approach to the state by geographers and political ecologists (Ahmed, 2018; Loftus, 2020). In a 2007 keynote speech (published a decade later in the Journal of Political Ecology ), Jessop discussed Poulantzas’ limited engagement with environmental issues and speculated about how he might have approached ecological questions if he had addressed them more thoroughly.…”
Section: Nicos Poulantzas’ Theory Of the Capitalist Statementioning
confidence: 99%