Pieces of Earth

The Politics of Land-Grabbing in Kashmir

Peer Ghulam Nabi Suhail (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

212 Seiten

2018
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-947761-6 (ISBN)

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This book is about the politics surrounding land grabbing for developmental projects by corporate led establishments such as the Indian National Hydroelectric Power Corporation in Kashmir. Kashmir, the author argues, has had a long past of political conflict with the Indian state, therefore the question of land grabbing gains immense importance for the future of resource and territorial conflicts in South Asia. The book traces the history of land tenure changes with changing political regimes in Kashmir to assess its impact on the peasant population. It focuses on the narratives of the state, the corporates, the elites, and absentee landlords which help facilitate land and resource grabbing in the state. The work also documents and analyses the multiple motivations of different actors that either support or resist such development related land grabbing. Combining the literature in violence and development and dispossession studies, the author addresses the socio-political conflict in land and resource grabbing in conflict zones.

Peer Ghulam Nabi Suhail is Director, Centre for Research and Development Policy, Srinagar

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Acknowledgement
List of Abbreviations

1. Capital in a Disputed Land
2. Global Perspective on Land Grabbing
3. Political and Economic History of Land Grabs in India
4. From Land Tenure Changes to Land Grabs
5. Development Induced Dispossession, Displacement, and Embedded Power Relations
6. Power, Politics, and Struggles over Land
7. Exploitation and Politics of Decision Making

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Index
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	30.03.2018
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	146 x 225 mm
Gewicht	378 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-19-947761-2 / 0199477612
ISBN-13	978-0-19-947761-6 / 9780199477616
Zustand	Neuware