Scientists’ Preference on Suggested Action Measures and Major Areas of Impact for Changing Weather Patterns in Cuttack District of Odisha, India

Senapati, Rupashree; Singh, Prabhat Kumar; Padhi, Nandini; Patra, Chinmayee

doi:10.20546/ijcmas.2020.903.274

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“…The region has a fragile resource base with mountainous terrain. Only a quarter of the total geographical area is available for farming (Senapati and Sahu 1966). Livelihoods are based on agriculture and wage labour.…”

Section: Kashipur and The Adivasi And Dalit Movement Against Miningmentioning

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2023

Ecol. Econ. Soc.

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A protracted movement emerged in Kashipur in Southern Odisha in 1993 that stalled a bauxite mining project for over 18 years. It went through fragmentations and eventually petered out by the early 2010s. This paper aims to understand how and why the processes of capital accumulation through dispossession cause fragmentation of social movements and their eventual petering out. I analyse the collective strikes that the villagers engaged in during 2008–2010, paralyzing the company’s incipient construction work over a tumultuous nine months. Critically engaging with David Harvey’s concept of “accumulation by dispossession” (ABD) and Kalyan Sanyal’s concept of “jobless growth”, I argue that ABD processes entail protracted interaction of extractive capital, bureaucratic structures, ecology, and the movements of subaltern communities with existing divisions. Dispossession processes generate new fissures in which ownership of land or lack of it due to land acquisition becomes the central axis of cleavage, shaping the politics and outcomes of dispossession. I further reveal that ‘jobless growth’ is unachievable for a company that can push ahead only through the provision of precarious employment and such promises...

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Section: Kashipur and The Adivasi And Dalit Movement Against Miningmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Our People Can’t Hold the Line!”

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2023

Ecol. Econ. Soc.

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Scientists’ Preference on Suggested Action Measures and Major Areas of Impact for Changing Weather Patterns in Cuttack District of Odisha, India

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