Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Destitution
Law, Race, and Human Security
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11886459 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Krishna (0000-0002-5724-4239, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, corresponding author), Sankaran Krishna (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 85-101 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Alternatives Global Local Political (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0304-3754 • E-ISSN: 2163-3150 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0304375415590909 |
| OpenAlex | W1836813213 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
A powerful new wave of alienating land from those who live on it is sweeping the global commons, and discourses such as “Emerging Economies” and “Brazil, Russia, India, China” are the ideological mediators of this wave. In India, the “slow violence” of the Nehruvian decades has been replaced by the accelerated pace of such processes under a neoliberal dispensation. In both periods, the overwhelming costs of “development” have been preponderantly visited upon Dalits, tribals, and landless laborers. Colonial laws regarding land acquisition and Eminent Domain have been an important legacy for the postcolonial state in its efforts to acquire land for private capital. They have intersected with notions of race and caste within the habitus of the Indian middle class, whose efforts to make the nation are simultaneously the unmaking of various subaltern groups and classes. Yet, as the struggle between the multinational Vedanta Corporation and a tribal group called the Dongaria Kondh in the Niyamgiri Hills of Odisha in southeastern India demonstrates, the outcomes are by no means a foregone conclusion
Ancient history · Capital (architecture · Caste · China · Colonialism · Corporation · Development economics · Economics · Ideology · Multinational corporation · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science · Subaltern · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · History · Land Rights and Reforms · Law · Political Economy and Marxism
| Citations per year | 0.82 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |