Volume 13, No. 1 – 2013

Articles

• Control of Resources and the Politics of Exclusion: Feminist Responses by ILINA SEN AND RANJANA PADHI Posted in: Feminisms, Articles Abstract: The timing of this collection coincides with a time when fundamentalist ideologies, neoliberal policies and the march of corporate capital dominate the landscape in many countries including ours. The neo liberal development paradigm has been studied, critiqued and has… Continue Reading
• Globalised Environmentalism vs Livelihood: from the Ocean Perspective by NALINI NAYAK Posted in: Development, Articles Abstract: As large capital brazenly acquires rights to land and mineral resources, resistance today focuses mainly on the marginalization and dispossession of people to land while very little is known about the privatization of the ocean commons, which is happening… Continue Reading
• Inheritance of loss: Experiences from Attappady by PRAKRUTHY U. M. Posted in: Development, Society, Articles Abstract: Social exclusion refers to the multidimensional process of progressive social rupture, detaching groups and individuals from social relations and institutions and preventing them from full participation in the normal, normatively prescribed activities of the society in which they live.… Continue Reading
• Shadowed Memoirs: Gender and Production of Landscape in a Rural Kerala Region by SAJU T. S. Posted in: Power, Development, Articles Abstract: The transformation of the urban and rural landscapes within the last few decades has increasingly been dominated by the demands of capitalist utilisation. Political Ecology and Production of Space theory argues that Capitalism relies specific kind of ‘produced space… Continue Reading
• State Encroachment and Women: with special Reference to the Mining Policy of India by PRITHA CHATTERJEE Posted in: Power, Development, Articles Abstract: Bina Agarwal in A Field of One’s Own (1994) offers a pithy observation regarding the historical and contemporary importance of a specific form of group right in land, namely, usufruct right in village common lands and in forests and… Continue Reading
• Hegemonic Ideology of Empire of Capital vs food Security, Right to work and Access to Natural Resources – Reflections on Experiences in Nagaland by GABRIELE DIETRICH Posted in: Power, Development, Articles Abstract: Part I of this paper deals with the persistent ideology of extraction and unlimited growth, even in the face of international finance crisis and admitted global warming. This contradiction can ultimately be only pushed through by militarisation, as we… Continue Reading
• Politics of Exclusion: Singur, Nandigram and Lalgarh by DEBLEENA AND NISHA BISWAS Posted in: Power, Development, Articles Abstract: Nehru’s policy for shifting agricultural base to heavy industry had its toll on economic backbone of the country. Though agricultural production rose four times in last sixty years, but its share in GDP reduced from 67% to 17%. Vision… Continue Reading