Felix Padel
Biographic Data
| ID | 710302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Felix Padel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Felix |
| FAMILY NAME | Padel |
| SIGNATURE | PADEL F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7126-0297 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From Gift to Debt
This chapter draws together writings in economic anthropology alongside insights from a number of heterodox economists, juxtaposed with the radical critique of capitalism outlined in recent prison writings by Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, to argue that basic concepts of political economy and economics need a radical rethink, in the light of indigenous or “precapitalist” economies. The extreme form of capitalism characteristic of present times n…
Arms and the man
The arms industry and trade are central to the world economy and the economics of and between nation-states; also, to corruption, the mining industry, the way science is defined and evolves, to climate change and ongoing assaults on the environment. But are economics students asked to analyse this situation? Do climate and environmental activists make it a central target of critique? Or is it almost taboo to write and talk about it too much, like…
And red flows the Koina river
This article documents Adivasi resistance to the 'loot' of their land and resources since 1980, especially during the Kalinganagar movement in Odisha, roughly between 2004 and 2010, and the Pathalgadi movement in Jharkhand, between 2016 and 2018. Using the lens of trauma and testimony, the article represents a combined effort by Gladson Dungdung, an Adivasi activist, journalist, and writer who has borne witness to events during these years; Felix…
Investment-Induced Displacement in Central India
India’s abundant natural resources are a key feature of its newfound status as an emerging market that attracts foreign investments. As the country’s output of metals and their ores increases, investments to secure deals over mineral deposits and manufacturing plants increase. Apart from direct funding for new projects, new investments pay for a large increase in the deployment of security forces, multilayered briberization, and protection money …
Resettling Displaced People
How Best to Ensure Adivasis' Land, Forest and Mineral Rights
Traditionally, Adivasis have lived for centuries in resource?rich regions, with a resulting high level of food security combined with in?built cultural restraints against taking too much from their environment. Increasingly rapid invasions and dispossessions of Adivasi lands and forests have seriously undermined their food security to the extent that as many as half their population are now living in a state of chronic malnourishment. A key reaso…
Cultural genocide and the rhetoric of sustainable mining in East India
In mining projects and metal factories proliferating in tribal areas of eastern central India, a gross disparity is evident between the dispossession and violence experienced by tribal communities on the one hand, and the rhetoric of ‘sustainable development’ put out by mining companies through public relations companies and the media on the other. While a large section of India's middle classes accept and identify with this rhetoric, grassroots …
Orissa's highland clearances
There is clearly an institutionalized attitude of neglect towards the displaced people. For example, no record of the number of people displaced is maintained. Such attitudes prevent the bureaucratic mindset from understanding the enormity of what is involved when tribal people, stripped of their land, are forcibly dumped to unlivable places euphemistically called resettlement colonies. Often it is this lack of understanding that gives rise to st…
Cultural genocide and the rhetoric of sustainable mining in East India
In mining projects and metal factories proliferating in tribal areas of eastern central India, a gross disparity is evident between the dispossession and violence experienced by tribal communities on the one hand, and the rhetoric of ‘sustainable development’ put out by mining companies through public relations companies and the media on the other. While a large section of India's middle classes accept and identify with this rhetoric, grassroots …
And red flows the Koina river
This article documents Adivasi resistance to the 'loot' of their land and resources since 1980, especially during the Kalinganagar movement in Odisha, roughly between 2004 and 2010, and the Pathalgadi movement in Jharkhand, between 2016 and 2018. Using the lens of trauma and testimony, the article represents a combined effort by Gladson Dungdung, an Adivasi activist, journalist, and writer who has borne witness to events during these years; Felix…
Orissa's highland clearances
There is clearly an institutionalized attitude of neglect towards the displaced people. For example, no record of the number of people displaced is maintained. Such attitudes prevent the bureaucratic mindset from understanding the enormity of what is involved when tribal people, stripped of their land, are forcibly dumped to unlivable places euphemistically called resettlement colonies. Often it is this lack of understanding that gives rise to st…
How Best to Ensure Adivasis' Land, Forest and Mineral Rights
Traditionally, Adivasis have lived for centuries in resource?rich regions, with a resulting high level of food security combined with in?built cultural restraints against taking too much from their environment. Increasingly rapid invasions and dispossessions of Adivasi lands and forests have seriously undermined their food security to the extent that as many as half their population are now living in a state of chronic malnourishment. A key reaso…
Investment-Induced Displacement in Central India
India’s abundant natural resources are a key feature of its newfound status as an emerging market that attracts foreign investments. As the country’s output of metals and their ores increases, investments to secure deals over mineral deposits and manufacturing plants increase. Apart from direct funding for new projects, new investments pay for a large increase in the deployment of security forces, multilayered briberization, and protection money …
Orissa's highland clearances
There is clearly an institutionalized attitude of neglect towards the displaced people. For example, no record of the number of people displaced is maintained. Such attitudes prevent the bureaucratic mindset from understanding the enormity of what is involved when tribal people, stripped of their land, are forcibly dumped to unlivable places euphemistically called resettlement colonies. Often it is this lack of understanding that gives rise to st…
Cultural genocide and the rhetoric of sustainable mining in East India
In mining projects and metal factories proliferating in tribal areas of eastern central India, a gross disparity is evident between the dispossession and violence experienced by tribal communities on the one hand, and the rhetoric of ‘sustainable development’ put out by mining companies through public relations companies and the media on the other. While a large section of India's middle classes accept and identify with this rhetoric, grassroots …
Resettling Displaced People
How Best to Ensure Adivasis' Land, Forest and Mineral Rights
Traditionally, Adivasis have lived for centuries in resource?rich regions, with a resulting high level of food security combined with in?built cultural restraints against taking too much from their environment. Increasingly rapid invasions and dispossessions of Adivasi lands and forests have seriously undermined their food security to the extent that as many as half their population are now living in a state of chronic malnourishment. A key reaso…
Investment-Induced Displacement in Central India
India’s abundant natural resources are a key feature of its newfound status as an emerging market that attracts foreign investments. As the country’s output of metals and their ores increases, investments to secure deals over mineral deposits and manufacturing plants increase. Apart from direct funding for new projects, new investments pay for a large increase in the deployment of security forces, multilayered briberization, and protection money …
And red flows the Koina river
This article documents Adivasi resistance to the 'loot' of their land and resources since 1980, especially during the Kalinganagar movement in Odisha, roughly between 2004 and 2010, and the Pathalgadi movement in Jharkhand, between 2016 and 2018. Using the lens of trauma and testimony, the article represents a combined effort by Gladson Dungdung, an Adivasi activist, journalist, and writer who has borne witness to events during these years; Felix…
From Gift to Debt
This chapter draws together writings in economic anthropology alongside insights from a number of heterodox economists, juxtaposed with the radical critique of capitalism outlined in recent prison writings by Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, to argue that basic concepts of political economy and economics need a radical rethink, in the light of indigenous or “precapitalist” economies. The extreme form of capitalism characteristic of present times n…
Arms and the man
The arms industry and trade are central to the world economy and the economics of and between nation-states; also, to corruption, the mining industry, the way science is defined and evolves, to climate change and ongoing assaults on the environment. But are economics students asked to analyse this situation? Do climate and environmental activists make it a central target of critique? Or is it almost taboo to write and talk about it too much, like…
Economics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · History (2 works)