Dispossession by Confusion from Mineral-Rich Lands in Central India

Oskarsson, Patrik

doi:10.1080/00856401.2012.739597

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“…The expansion of the mining sector globally is the subject of growing debate, with considerable attention devoted to power dynamics in governing and contesting large-scale mining in Asia (Bedi, 2013;Holden et al, 2011;Hatcher, 2013;Hatcher, 2015;Oskarsson, 2013). However, little literature in Asia has focused on power dynamics in regulating and representing artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM), a segment of the mineral economy that presents complex and often very different -yet relatedsocioeconomic and environmental challenges Verbrugge and Besmanos, 2016).…”

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Land and ‘space’ for regulating artisanal mining in Cambodia: Visualizing an environmental governance conundrum in contested territory

Spiegel

2016

Land Use Policy

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Globally, land use competition in mining areas is coming under increased scrutiny, leading to critical debates about inter-related physical and political "spaces" for environmental governance. By signing a global treaty called the Minamata Convention on Mercury, governments worldwide have conveyed a commitment to formalizing or regulating informal artisanal gold mining as part of an environmental governance strategy. Drawing on a case study of disputed gold mining territory in Kratie Province, Cambodia, this article examines how commitment to the Minamata Convention presents a conundrum given the government's prioritization of larger-scale concessions in land use policy. In most mineralrich regions of Kratie and other provinces, mineral exploration and/or mining rights -and other kinds of resource concessions -have already been granted to established companies and powerful actors, leaving ambiguous physical and political space for licensing artisanal mining. The article explores contested representations of mining as found in provincial government maps and civil society groups' cartoon illustrations, unpacking how competing mandates in the mining sector have created dilemmas for regional environmental governance as complex land-use conflicts between artisanal miners and larger companies have unfolded. Diverse competing claims to resources in Kratie illustrate the need to move beyond framings of the Minamata Convention as a technical implementation challenge in order to carefully appreciate the power dynamics inherent in divergent ways of visualizing "productive space" in mining regions. Contributing to recent scholarship in this journal on contested land use governance in Cambodia, the article calls for unpacking complexities of formally "making space" for artisanal mining in contested territory. At a wider conceptual level, the analysis highlights the importance of sensitively challenging common de-territorialized depictions of land use formalization that oversimplify the dialectical and contextually idiosyncratic interplays between political and physical space.

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Land and ‘space’ for regulating artisanal mining in Cambodia: Visualizing an environmental governance conundrum in contested territory

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2016

Land Use Policy

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“…Thus government intervention is not reduced overall in the economy but works in favour of domestic private sector interests. This elite development alliance is united by strong economic and political incentives in order to exploit India's mineral reserves and often the land required for mining displaces adivasis who do not receive the benefits that are supposed to flow from such development (Oskarsson, 2013). As a Sahara villager, Laksman, said:…”

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“We don’t want to eat coal”: Development and its Discontents in a Chhattisgarh district in India

Ghosh

2016

Energy Policy

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“…The problem of land acquisition for a variety of purposes, including extraction, can offer a starting point. While dispossession for development goes back to the Nehruvian era after independence (Ray and Katzenstein, 2005), deregulation and subnational competition for economic investment in the post‐liberalization era have shaped how states within India orchestrate land acquisition for industry (D'Costa and Chakraborty, 2017; Levien, 2013, 2015, 2018; Nielsen and Nilsen, 2017; Oskarsson, 2013; Sud, 2014).…”

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The Political Construction of Extractive Regimes in Two Newly Created Indian States: A Comparative Analysis of Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh

Adhikari¹,

Chhotray²

2020

Development and Change

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This article presents a multidimensional account of the politics of resource extraction in two subnational regions of India in response to the question: what are the political conditions that facilitate extraction? Emerging from the same moment of state creation in 2000, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh are adjacent mineral-rich states with similar demographic profiles and comparable levels of economic development. The authors argue that despite these similarities and India's highly centralized legislative framework for natural resource governance, the two states have developed distinctive 'extractive regimes' in the years since statehood, which contrast in important ways across three dimensions: political organization and history, institutional effectiveness, and the nature and management of social resistance. The article offers the first in-depth, comparative account of how subnational territorial reorganization in India acts as a critical juncture enabling the formation of extractive regimes, which have also converged in important ways in recent years.1. Adivasis refer to the indigenous peoples of India, who are also broadly described as tribal and categorized as the Scheduled Tribes within the Constitution. We will use 'adivasi' and 'tribal' interchangeably in this article. Development and Change 51(3): 843-873.Scholars writing on the politics of extraction have challenged the hegemony of the 'resource curse' paradigm (Ross, 2015) in a number of ways. This 2. The Right to Information (RTI) Act of 2005 allows citizens to file information requests on aspects of governance, which the state is legally bound to respond to.

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Dispossession by Confusion from Mineral-Rich Lands in Central India

Cited by 20 publications

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Land and ‘space’ for regulating artisanal mining in Cambodia: Visualizing an environmental governance conundrum in contested territory

Land and ‘space’ for regulating artisanal mining in Cambodia: Visualizing an environmental governance conundrum in contested territory

“We don’t want to eat coal”: Development and its Discontents in a Chhattisgarh district in India

The Political Construction of Extractive Regimes in Two Newly Created Indian States: A Comparative Analysis of Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh

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