Involuntary Displacement and the Changing Frontiers of Kinship: A Study of Resettlement in Orissa

Behura, NK; Nayak, Pradeep

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“…By using the logic of the "greater good," it rationalized and justified a force resettlement (Cernea 2000). Unlike other cases of forced displacement literature (Behura & Nayak 2019;Pandey 1996;Gutman 1994), the idea of a forced action was not entirely clear; the manipulation was more fundamental. Some months after the project began, some Beleninos began accepting the justifications of public policymakers and the government.…”

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Government Rationality and Risk Production: Case Study from River Communities in Peru

Gorenstein¹

2023

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Based on ten months of ethnographic fieldwork in marginal, low-income, Belenino river communities located in Iquitos, a fluvial city in the Amazon basin. By using ethnographic methods and semi-structured interviews, this article traces how risk is associated with life in Belenino communities and how the identity of Beleninos and the river at the heart of a resettlement project are politically constructed rather than empirically constructed. In this case study of resettlement, understandings of risk and development by Belenino river communities and the government both conflicted and overlapped, I identified three elements that help to shape the concept of risk in both groups that highlight the disjunctive meanings provided by culture and demonstrate the complexity of the analysis of both populations. Finally, by putting the state’s weak presence after a developmental project failure under ethnographic approximation, the article reveals an imbalance in validity and power in terms of the perspectives of the river and Belen.

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Government Rationality and Risk Production: Case Study from River Communities in Peru

Gorenstein¹

2023

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“…They include hydroelectriccum-irrigation projects, such as Hirakud (1948), Balimela (1963), Machhkund (1949), Upper Kolab (1978), Indravati (1978, Mandira, Rengali (1973) and Subarnarekha river; mineral-based industries, such as Rourkela Steel Plant (1950), National Aluminium Company at Angul (1985) and Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (1962); the bauxite mining project at Koraput (1981); and projects on cement, iron, dolomite and limestone. These projects had serious repercussions impacting on village economies, family life and village power structures, as has been documented through various empirical studies in the state (Behura & Nayak, 1993;Mohapatra, 1999;Panda & Panigrahi, 2004;Patnaik, 2000).…”

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People’s Movement in Odisha: An Assessment

Raj

2017

Indian Journal of Public Administration

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Development process in Odisha (before 2011 Orissa) may have led to progress but has also resulted in large-scale dispossession of land, homesteads, forests and also denial of livelihood and human rights. In Odisha as the requirements of development increase, the arena of contestation between the state/corporate entities and the people has correspondingly multiplied because the paradigm of contemporary model of growth is not sustainable and leads to irreparable ecological/environmental costs. It has engendered many people’s movements. Struggles in rural Odisha have increasingly focused on proactively stopping of projects, mining, forcible land, forest and water acquisition fallouts from government/corporate sector. Contemporaneously, such people’s movements are happening in Kashipur, Kalinga Nagar, Jagatsinghpur, Lanjigarh, etc. They have not gained much success in achieving their objectives. However, the people’s movement of Baliapal in Odisha is acknowledged as a success. It stopped the central and state governments from bulldozing resistance to set up a National Missile Testing Range in an agriculturally rich area in the mid-1980s by displacing some lakhs of people of their land, homesteads, agricultural production, forests and entitlements. A sustained struggle for 12 years against the state by using Gandhian methods of peaceful civil disobedience movement ultimately won and the government was forced to abandon its project. As uneven growth strategies sharpen, the threats to people’s human rights, natural resources, ecology and subsistence are deepening. Peaceful and non-violent protest movements like Baliapal may be emulated in the years ahead.

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“…In addition, Cernea also jointly edited a couple of books (Mathur and Cernea 1995;Cernea and Mathur 2008) In turn, many Indian anthropologists and sociologists have written for World Bank publications. They include: Behura and Nayak (1993), Mahapatra (2000), Fernandes (2000), Hakim (2000), Nayak 2000), Appa and Patel (1996) and Thangaraj (1996). In addition, Mathur (1977) prepared a publication based on resettlement experience in Rajasthan, which was published by World Bank/EDI).…”

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From Onlookers to Participants: How the Role of Social Scientists Has Changed in India’s Development in the Last 70 Years

Mathur¹

2021

Social Development in the World Bank

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Prior to the mid-1970, India’s non-economic social scientists had no role in policy, planning or implementation of resettlement, though their skills were relevant for the purpose and anthropologists had the requisite expertise. But anthropologists remained only distant onlookers of the terrible things that were happening in the name of development. In 1974 a historic change took place in the World Bank. This was the appointment of anthropologists and sociologists as regular staff. Thereafter, social concerns began receiving increasing attention in the Bank. This also resulted in a sudden demand for anthropologists and sociologists to prepare projects for Bank financing. India then also began involving anthropologists and sociologists in preparing projects involving social issues. From mere onlookers, they then became active participants in development activities.

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Involuntary Displacement and the Changing Frontiers of Kinship: A Study of Resettlement in Orissa

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Government Rationality and Risk Production: Case Study from River Communities in Peru

Government Rationality and Risk Production: Case Study from River Communities in Peru

People’s Movement in Odisha: An Assessment

From Onlookers to Participants: How the Role of Social Scientists Has Changed in India’s Development in the Last 70 Years

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