The Pattern of Land-Grabbing Practice in Year of the Weeds Novel by Siddhartha Sarma

Abstract

Environmental issues are increasingly worrying, some of which are in the form of deforestation and land degradation caused by the conversion of forest functions into mining. This study describes the practice of forest land-grabbing by the government in corporations with companies to be used for mining. The data source is Year of the Weeds novel by Siddhartha Sarma. Then, it was analyzed using document analysis techniques with the following stages: unitizing, sampling, recording, reducing, inferring, and narrating. The data validation used an ecocritical approach with primary and secondary references in the form of relevant research articles, books, and information in the media. The findings revealed a pattern of land grabbing practices in the form of government-company cooperation; surveying, measuring, and setting stakes; offering compensation and employment; changing the regulation on the function of the area; involvement of the apparatus and violence; land acquisition experts; and the issue of the involvement of radical groups; and arresting residents. Several developing countries, including India, Indonesia, and Brazil, engage in confiscation with the same practice pattern. This pattern of practice, if carried out continuously, will cause environmental crises.

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“…The representation of urban areas is in line with the findings of (Juanda, 2023), which describes cities as environments with complete living facilities, as well as (Inmozhi & Kishore, 2023), which describe them as man-made artificial environments. The findings of this study are also in line with study by (Abdelsalam, 2019;Ewaidat, 2019;Nirmala & Surur, 2023;Ismail, 2023) that describes rural landscapes that are still maintained in beautiful and simple community life alongside nature, as well as studies by (Praveena & Raju, 2023;Setyawan, Suyitno, Wardani, & Suwandi, 2023), that identify human exploitation of nature in the context of urbanization and modernization has an impact on the destruction of nature. Meanwhile the results of this study are not in line with (Kuan, Mohsen, & Othman, 2023), which describe the simple life of the countryside as synonymous with the poverty of its population.…”

“…Ecocriticism is a study that is quite attractive to critics who pay more attention to the sustainability of nature and the environment. The researchers found several previous studies that raised the theme of ecology in literature, including study related to the harmony of the relationship between humans and nature (Abdelsalam, 2019;Ewaidat, 2019;Malecki, Mossner, & Dobrowolska, 2020;Gouili, 2021;Cotton, 2021;Hilmiyatun, Suwandi, Waluyo, & Wardani, 2022;Kuan, Mohsen, & Othman, 2023;Juanda, 2023;Praveena & Raju, 2023;Nirmala & Surur, 2023), environmental change in the form of environmental damage (Boast, 2020;David & Bhuvaneswari, 2022;Pérez-Gil, 2022;Karthik & Mukherjee, 2022;Inmozhi & Kishore, 2023;Setyawan, Suyitno, Wardani, & Suwandi, 2023;Ismail, 2023) and calls for environmental conservation (Siwi, et al, 2022;Rarasati & Zawawi, 2022;Manugeren, et al, 2023;Ghanem, 2023).…”

“…These previous studies have similarities and differences with this study in various aspects. Greg Garrard's ecocritical theory is used to study the issue of land grabbing (Setyawan, Suyitno, Wardani, & Suwandi, 2023) and marine life (Juanda, 2023). Ecocritical themes are also found in Arabic literature, such as ecological narratives in Egyptian society (Ewaidat, 2019;Abdelsalam, 2019), animal representations of lizards (Gouili, 2021), depictions of deserts (Nirmala & Surur, 2023), the exploitation of nature (Ismail, 2023), the value of ecological wisdom (Rarasati & Zawawi, 2022).…”