When 'green' becomes 'saffron

Wind extraction, border surveillance, and citizenship regime at the edge of the Indian state

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4302018
AutoresDavid Singh (0000-0002-4593-9869, University of East Anglia & University of Copenhagen, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume30
Fascículo1
Data de publicação2023-10-21
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Political Ecology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1073-0451 • E-ISSN: 1073-0451
EditoraUniversity of Arizona (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2458/jpe.5490
OpenAlexW4385886852
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7

Low-carbon mega-infrastructures constitute one of the main institutional responses to climate change in India's agrarian settings, as they are imagined around features of 'greenness' and 'cleanness.' But this story entails a problematic construction of land, the reconfiguration of space for extractive development, and a complete disruption of agrarian social structures around features of exclusion and dispossession. This research adopts perspectives from political ecology to understand the persistence of class-caste relations, the legacy of coloniality, and the new citizenship regime underlying 'green' extractivism in India's low-carbon infrastructures. Wind turbines align with broad ethno-religious conceptions of Indian citizenship and space as Hindu, and their expansion over new border areas serves nationalist projects of territorial reconfiguration, cultural identity revivalism, border-making, and Muslim populations' surveillance

Agrarian society · Agriculture · Archaeology · Caste · Citizenship · Control reconfiguration · Geography · Hindu nationalism · Nationalism · Political ecology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Engineering · Law · Transboundary Water Resource Management · Water Governance and Infrastructure