Special Economic Zones and Accumulation by Dispossession in India

By Michael Levien. 2011

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Subfields: Finance, Political Science and International Relations, Urban Studies

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Spatial justice and the land politics of renewables: Dispossessing vulnerable communities through solar energy mega-projects (2016, background): “However, as scholars have pointed out, the uneven development and dispossession of livelihoods serves to ultimately amplify existing inequalities in such agrarian caste-based social structures (Levien, 2011; Yenneti and Day, 2016).”
The political economy of special economic zones (2014, background): “As a blatant example of this, the government has allegedly used eminent domain to sell land to private developers at artificially low prices (Levien, 2011: pp 460).”
Regimes of Dispossession: From Steel Towns to Special Economic Zones (2013, background): “…industrialization — two-thirds are being built for the IT/BPO (business process outsourcing) sectors, which largely employ middle-class, educated urban youth (Radhakrishnan, 2011; Upadhya, 2007) and hold little promise of absorbing the labour of dispossessed farmers (Levien, 2011a, 2012).”
Global Land Grabbing and Trajectories of Agrarian Change: A Preliminary Analysis (2012, background): “…such as in China, or the situation in India, where a lot of land grabbing is actually for non-agricultural purposes, including mining, industrial and infrastructural development, business parks, residential and other real estate (Levien 2011), then the overall picture widens even further.”
Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean (2012, unknown): “United Colours of Benetton deal in Argentina with close to a million ha) and aggregate total are significant. Moreover, not included in this paper and in the 17 FAO studies are the data on and analysis of emerging trend of placing forests under the carbon-offset programs, i.e. REDDþ. Such policies h”
The land question: special economic zones and the political economy of dispossession in India (2012, background): “Many of my respondents – from chief secretaries of states to industrial development officials to chamber of commerce representatives – insisted that the ability of states to furnish this land has become the most important factor in the inter-state competition for investment (see Levien 2011).”
Accumulation by Dispossession and Socio‐Environmental Conflicts Caused by the Expansion of Agribusiness in Argentina (2015, background): “Thereby, agribusiness accumulates through the dispossession of campesinos and other social actors (Levien 2011).”
Economic transition and speculative urbanisation in China: Gentrification versus dispossession (2016, background): “…in exchange for meagre compensation that does not reflect the future increase in the value of those properties after redevelopment (Ramanathan 2010 the ABD as one of key instruments to urban accumulation, as it removes barriers to accumulation through state-led land assembly (e.g. Levien 2011).”