The land question: special economic zones and the political economy of dispossession in India

Levien, Michael

doi:10.1080/03066150.2012.656268

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“…Moreover, the very designation of a piece of land as an SEZ can raise its value substantially, which has often resulted in questionable deals to convert agricultural land into SEZs, without appropriate compensation to those previously using or occupying it. Widespread land grabbing was observed following India's 2005 SEZ Act, resulting in the 'conversion of the fertile land into cement structures' (Khan 2008: 14;Mitra 2008: 13;Levien 2012). Viet Nam has seen around 100,000 rural villagers displaced to make way for industrial zones and complexes-a 2005 report asserted that more than a third of them were inadequately compensated (Action Aid Vietnam 2005).…”

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The Practice of Industrial Policy

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“…Harvey is ambiguous on the role of extraeconomic force in his own work; he includes such things as pension stripping and predatory lending in ABD in his initial formulation of the term. However, De Angelis (2004) and Levien (2012) convincingly show that a means-based definition of expropriation that is explicit about the presence of coercive force is the only analytical basis for differentiating ABD from expanded reproduction. The presence of such force, they further argue, following Marx, structures the terms on which class struggle takes place and thus must remain explicit for political, not only analytical, reasons.…”

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“…If capitalist development proceeds dialectically through forms of class struggle that arise in and through regimes of accumulation, then attention to the particular 'regimes of dispossession' (Levien, 2012) that shape the degree of state violence required to facilitate accumulation needs to be consistently clarified rather than elided. Contra gentrification studies, work on ABD makes such mechanisms clear, suggesting the analytical risk of subsuming different mechanisms of displacement into a single conceptual rubric-gentrification or any other.…”

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India's Urban Revolution: Geographies of Displacement beyond Gentrification

2014

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Abstract. This paper uses an analysis of key dynamics of sociospatial change in Indian cities to offer a sympathetic critique of recent efforts to extend gentrification theory into the Global South. Despite the postcolonial overtures of this new, Southern gentrification literature, the paper argues that the global search for gentrification risks following a diffusionist logic that either presumes a Euro-American template, or else so sheers gentrification of its analytical specificity that it loses both its explanatory power and its political potency. The paper shows that gentrification theory operates on four implicit presumptions, which fail to characterize the primary dynamics of urban change in India. These include: (1) the presumption that lower-class displacement is driven by a reinvestment of capital into disinvested spaces; (2) a property centrism; (3) an agnosticism on the question of extraeconomic force; and (4) the presumption that land from which lower classes are displaced finds a 'higher and better use'. A priori commitment to the gentrification analytic thus overlooks key features of urban change in contexts, like India, with property, planning, and legal systems different from the postindustrial geographies from which gentrification theory developed. The paper suggests that 'urban revolution', 'enclosures', and 'accumulation by dispossession', while equally abstract terms, more clearly allow for the comparative analysis of displacement.

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“…E i -efficiency of activities i -the territories of the advancing development, %; N -number of the territories of the advancing development supported by the government, piece; C -costs from the federal budget for development of the territories of the advancing development, million rubles; G -a relative error between the calculated values and dependences received as a result of an experiment on the basis of the analysis of the international experience of implementation of the territories of the advancing development [25][26][27][28][29].…”

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Development of industry in Far East of Russia based on use of innovative investment attraction practice

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Merkusheva

2017

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Abstract. The article considers the issues relevant at the present stage of economic development of the Far East of the Russian Federation. One of instruments of this economic development of the region is forming the territories of the advancing development which can be considered as one of the possible ways of interaction of industrial enterprises of the subjects of the Far Eastern Federal District with partners from the Asia-Pacific states. The features of the territories of the advancing development, the criteria for classification of the subjects of the Far East as the territories of the advancing development, and the main preferences for the residents of these territories are noted. The algorithms for the estimation of prospects of the activities of the territories of the advancing development are also given in the article. Based on the conducted theoretical researches, the criteria for evaluation of the efficiency of activities of the territories of the advancing development are determined. Based on the analysis of the criteria, a mathematical model for the estimation of efficiency of advancing development territories activities was developed, which clearly demonstrated that in the current economic environment the optimum quantity of the territories of the advancing development in the Far East, securing the maximum performance indicator of their activities, is 8.

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The land question: special economic zones and the political economy of dispossession in India

Cited by 260 publications

References 40 publications

The Practice of Industrial Policy

The Practice of Industrial Policy

India's Urban Revolution: Geographies of Displacement beyond Gentrification

Development of industry in Far East of Russia based on use of innovative investment attraction practice

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