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

By Michael Levien. 2012

349 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Political Science and International Relations, Urban Studies

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. I. Scoones
2. Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
3. R. Hall
4. Wendy Wolford
5. B. White
6. M. Kenney‐Lazar
7. S. Isakson
8. Shapan Adnan

In Political Science and International Relations

1. Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
2. M. Kenney‐Lazar
3. Shapan Adnan
4. S. Isakson
5. I. Scoones
6. B. White
7. R. Hall
8. Wendy Wolford

In Urban Studies

1. Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
2. M. Kenney‐Lazar
3. Shapan Adnan
4. S. Isakson
5. Wendy Wolford
6. B. White
7. R. Hall
8. I. Scoones

Citations in the corpus

• Social Capital as Obstacle to Development: Brokering Land, Norms, and Trust in Rural India (2015, background): “After paying debts and building new houses, the majority of families—and especially SCs and OBCs—did not wind up with income-generating-assets equivalent to what they lost (see Levien, 2012).”
• 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).”
• Plantation rubber, land grabbing and social-property transformation in southern Laos (2012, background): “Other recent case studies have analyzed land grabbing as a process of dispossession, denying small farmers, forest dwellers and pastoralists access to the land upon which they depend for their livelihoods (see Ballve 2011 on narcotics production and territorial dispossession in Colombia and Levien”
• Land grabs and primitive accumulation in deltaic Bangladesh: interactions between neoliberal globalization, state interventions, power relations and peasant resistance (2013, background): “The simultaneity of these ‘two transformations’ (De Angelis 2004, 62, Levien 2012, 937) is integral to Marx’s construct of primitive accumulation and constitutes something of a special case.”
• Food and finance: the financial transformation of agro-food supply chains (2014, background): “ment institutions like the UN Development Programme and the German Society for International Cooperation, in collaboration with financial service enterprises, have promoted micro-insurance as a means of managing the risks of agricultural production. As Da Costa (2013) observes for the Indian context”
• The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals (2012, background): “This has led to massive land conflicts in these countries (see e.g. Levien 2012, this collection).”