Tribal communities and coal in Northeast India: The politics of imposing and resisting mining bans

McDuie‐Ra, Duncan; Kikon, Dolly

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2016.05.021

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“…The ban on rat-hole mining triggered fundamental debates on livelihoods and indigenous rights ( McDuie-Ra and Kikon, 2016 ). The practice of rat-hole mining enabled people to make a living from coal with very low capital requirements.…”

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Talk renewables, walk coal: The paradox of India's energy transition

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Schaffartzik

2021

Ecological Economics

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Coal is on the rise in India: despite the devasting impacts of the climate crisis, the awareness for land and forest rights, and political talk of a coal phase-out. In this article, we demonstrate that despite the renewables-led rhetoric, India is in the midst of a transition to (not away from) greater use of coal in its fossil energy system and in the electricity system in particular. We investigate this paradox by combining socio-metabolic and political-ecological analysis of the Indian coal complex. Our framework integrates material and energy flow data as characterizing the Indian fossil energy transition, indicators on the development and structure of the coal industry, and studies of ecological distribution conflicts around coal. The dominant claim to expansive use of coal and the competing counterclaims are indicative of underlying power relations which can also be witnessed in other countries. In India, they extend into the conflicted development of renewable energy including hydropower, in which the land dispossession, exclusion, and injustices associated with the expansion of the coal complex are reproduced. We conclude that the current energy transition – in which coal continues to play a dominant role – is neither sustainable nor just.

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Talk renewables, walk coal: The paradox of India's energy transition

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Schaffartzik

2021

Ecological Economics

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“…Conflicts centred around the environmental and health effects produced by fossil fuels represent another important political devaluation force, which has produced devaluation not only through sabotage, such as occupations that shut down investments (Brock and Dunlap 2018), but also through litigation that forces the premature closure of operations (McDuie‐Ra and Kikon 2016), and environmental regulations that make them more expensive (Linn and McCormack 2019). Strong environmental regulations have great potential to produce a general rather than individual devaluation in subjected countries or regions.…”

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The Role of Moral Devaluation in Phasing Out Fossil Fuels: Limits for a Socioecological Fix

Furnaro

2021

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By putting into conversation theories of capital devaluation, the scholarship on the socioecological fix, and critical energy studies, this paper offers a conceptual framework to study the phase-out of fossil fuel energy infrastructure. The concept of moral devaluation is presented, which emphasises the interaction of economic, political, and socioecological dimensions shaping the main forces, constraints, and regulatory mechanisms to devalue emission-intensive fixed capital. This notion of moral devaluation is useful to inform empirical research on the institutional arrangements through which the devaluation of fixed fossil fuel capital is resisted and organised. Moreover, this notion complements current studies about the possibility of a capital switch to renewable energies as a socioecological fix to the climate and other entangled crises of capitalism, by emphasising that the devaluation of fixed capital represents a constraining condition for the rapid emergence of a socioecological fix based on fixed capital formation in the low-carbon energy sector.

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“…Thus, various structures of the state did not become dominant in the field. Unlike petroleum in neighboring areas of Assam, coal reserves of Meghalaya remained largely under the control of indigenous institutions of governance (McDuie-Ra & Kikon, 2016). Because of these structural characteristics in this first settlement, coalmining remained as a microscale livelihood activity undertaken by indigenous people and governed mostly by tribal institutions.…”

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Governance Settlements and Transitions in Indigenous Areas of Limited Statehood: The Case of Coalmining in Meghalaya

Vakkayil

2020

Business & Society

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This article explores governance issues in an area of limited statehood characterized by the combination of state and indigenous institutions. This is done by adopting an institutional lens focusing on three factors—field structures, institutional logics, and actor agency—to analyze governance settlements. The results point to how complex governance settlements in areas of limited statehood hold together with a certain degree of alignment between institutional elements. However, as the field evolves, contestations and misalignments lead to changes in governance settlements. Analyzing these transitions, this study identifies three key processes that have facilitated deeper state penetration in the field, namely, delocalization of field structures, hybridization of institutional logics, and diversification of actor agency.

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Tribal communities and coal in Northeast India: The politics of imposing and resisting mining bans

Cited by 24 publications

References 31 publications

Talk renewables, walk coal: The paradox of India's energy transition

Talk renewables, walk coal: The paradox of India's energy transition

The Role of Moral Devaluation in Phasing Out Fossil Fuels: Limits for a Socioecological Fix

Governance Settlements and Transitions in Indigenous Areas of Limited Statehood: The Case of Coalmining in Meghalaya

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