| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 225 pages) : colour illustrations, maps. |
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| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Series |
Asia-Pacific environment monograph ; 14
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Asia-Pacific environment monograph ; 14.
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| Summary |
Landlock: Paralysing Dispute over Minerals on Adivasi Land in India explores the ways in which political controversy over a bauxite mining and refining project on constitutionally protected tribal lands in Andhra Pradesh descended into a state of paralysis where no productive outcome was possible. Long-running support for Adivasi (or tribal) land rights motivated a wide range of actors to block the project's implementation by recourse to India's dispersed institutional landscape, while project proponents proved adept in proposing workarounds to prevent its outright cancellation. In the ensuing deadlock, the project was unable to move towards completion, while marginalised Adivasi groups were equally unable to repossess their land. Such a 'landlock' is argued to be characteristic of India's wider inability to deal with conflicts over land matters, despite the crucial importance of land for smallholder livelihoods and various economic processes in an intensely growth-focused country. The result has been frequent yet grindingly slow processes of contestation in which powerful business and state interests are, at times, halted in their tracks, but mostly seem able to slowly exhaust local resistance in their pursuit of large-scale projects that produce no benefits for the rural poor. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-225). |
| Contents |
Intro; Tables; Figures; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; 1. Mining Conflicts in Liberalising India; 2. Adivasi Land Rights and Dispossession; 3. The Formation of a Public-Private Alliance; 4. Livelihoods at the Two Sites; 5. Government Mediation or Facilitation?; 6. Oppositional Noise from the Fringes; 7. Habermas's Nightmare?; 8. Conclusion; References |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- India.
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Indigenous peoples. |
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India. |
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Natural resources -- India -- Andhra Pradesh.
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Natural resources. |
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India -- Andhra Pradesh. |
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Land tenure -- India.
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Land tenure. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Australian National University Press.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Oskarsson, Patrik. Landlock : Paralysing Dispute over Minerals on Adivasi Land in India. Canberra : ANU Press, ©2018 |
| ISBN |
9781760462512 (ebook) |
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1760462519 (ebook) |
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9781760462505 (paperback) |
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1760462500 (paperback) |
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