Expropriation of Land and Cultures
The Odisha Story and Beyond
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7096901 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Subrat Sahu (0000-0002-8634-1409, Film Independent, corresponding author), Subrat Kumar Sahu (Independent Researcher, Filmmaker and Journalist), Mamata Dash (Independent Researcher and Rights Activist, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 251-270 |
| Publication date | 2011-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0049-0857 • E-ISSN: 0976-3538 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/004908571104100204 |
| OpenAlex | W2134935378 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
In a state such as Odisha in which Dalit and tribal groups comprise about 40 per cent of the total population, the issue of ‘access’ to land and resources has apparently been central to all conflicts. For traditional communities, ‘access’ is directly linked to civilizational paradigms and cultural ethos, which rather decide their ‘economics’, and not the other way round that may be true for modern, techno-centric civilizations. Most mainstream discourses of history have, however, tried to locate the crisis in the ‘absence of state interventions’. But, a dig into the social history points to deeper roots of the crisis, which rather intensified after the entry of the ‘welfare’ State. The article attempts to establish linkages between marginalization of traditional communities (often to the extent of cultural genocide) and the growing political articulation of the same groups in myriad ways and methods, keeping in the heart of the argument the less-talked-about processes of ‘cultural appropriation
Appropriation · Argument (complex analysis · Articulation (sociology · Epistemology · Ethos · Genocide · Mainstream · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Indian History and Philosophy · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
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| Citations per year | 0.46 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |