Between land and the market

Farmers’ mobilizations in Chhattisgarh and western Uttar Pradesh

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12716098
AutoresManjusha Nair (0000-0001-9715-4812, George Mason University, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume23
Fascículo1
Páginas90-104
Data de publicação2022-10-20
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGlobalizations (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1474-7731 • E-ISSN: 1474-774X
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14747731.2022.2131287
OpenAlexW4306919161
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas31

In this article, I seek to understand the subnational variations in protests against land acqusition in India by comparing Chhattisgarh and western Uttar Pradesh (UP). Current scholarship explains these subnational variations through an analysis of subnational state policies of land acquisition. I suggest a people-centered approach that pays more attention to how the regional forms of mobilization have been shaped by the historical trajectories of engagement with the (colonial and postcolonial) state, market, and resistance movements. In Chhattisgarh, historical dispossessions and contemporary exclusions orchestrated by the state, the presence of strong civil society organizations to counter the state, and intergenerational memories of a rebellious tribal past resulted in the challenge to the market. State-driven agrarian development programs that created farmer entrepreneurs with urban longings, and a fear of loss of status resulted in the farmers’ demands for better compensation in UP. I suggest that complex and divergent historical processes might be at the root of why these mobilizations are predominantly subnational than national in scale

Agrarian society · Agrarian structure · Agriculture · Archaeology · Colonialism · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Land tenure · Mobilization · Political economy · Political science · Scholarship · Socioeconomics · Sociology · State (computer science · Uttar pradesh · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Land Rights and Reforms · Law