The Politics of Land, Consent, and Negotiation: Revisiting the Development-Displacement Narratives from Singur in West Bengal

Das, Ritanjan

doi:10.4000/samaj.4103

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“…As a result, the opposition party raised agitation against the land acquisition with the help of local farmers. As a result, Tata Motors Group left West Bengal and chose Gujarat state for their Nano factory [155]. The result ended with the origin of wastelands in Singur [156], where the disputes have made the land unfit for agriculture and industry.…”

Section: Classification Of Wastelandmentioning

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Reappraising Natures and Perspectives of Wasteland in the Developing World with a Focus on India

Kar,

Sundberg,

Satpati

et al. 2024

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This article seeks to provide an improved and more comprehensive understanding of the concept and theories on wasteland. It achieves this by focusing on the Indian context, allowing us to unpack the importance of including multiple perspectives of wasteland narratives; this means including more positive narratives of the potential of wasteland to inform and improve prospects for land policies in the Global South. Wasteland is commonly recognized as an underutilized category of land that may transform into a valuable resource base with proper management measures. The term waste has multiple angles that carry different notions ranging from fallow to agroforestry land in the Global South and brownfield to green space in the Global North. We conduct a narrative review approach to qualitatively analyze the concept of wastelands, which has been studied in the pre-existing literature from 1970 to the present. This unsystematic literature review approach incorporates multiple elements of wasteland discourse, like understanding the meaning of the term on a global scale, setting out the meaning of the term waste into multiple perspectives explicitly in the Indian context, along with different classes and management approaches to wasteland from a national perspective. The multiple perspectives of wasteland not only generate misconceptions of land resources but spawn difficulties in land-use policy, particularly for the Indian scenario. For sustainable land-use policy, reclaiming wasteland would be the best possible way for India and other countries in the Global South, which requires a comprehensive methodological overview on wasteland narrative.

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Section: Classification Of Wastelandmentioning

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Reappraising Natures and Perspectives of Wasteland in the Developing World with a Focus on India

Kar,

Sundberg,

Satpati

et al. 2024

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“…As a result, the opposition party raised agitation against the land acquisition with the help of the local farmers. As a result, Tata Motors Group left West Bengal and chose Gujarat state for their Nano factory [155]. The result ended with the origin of wastelands in Singur [156], where the disputes have made the land unfit for agriculture and industry.…”

Section: Classification Of Wastelandmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reappraising Natures and Perspectives of <em>Wasteland </em>in Developing World with a Focus on India

Kar,

Sundberg,

Satpati

et al. 2024

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This article seeks to provide an improved and more comprehensive understanding of the concept and theories on wasteland. It achieves this by focusing on the Indian context allowing us to unpack the importance of including multiple perspectives of wasteland narratives; this means including more positive narratives of the potential of wasteland to inform and improve prospects for land policies in the global south. Wasteland is commonly recognized as an underutilized category of land that may transform into a valuable resource base with proper management measures. The term waste has multiple angles that carry different notions ranging from fallow to agroforestry land in the global south and Brownfield to green space in the global north. We conduct a narra-tive review approach to qualitatively analyze the concept wastelands studied in pre-existing lit-erature from 1970 to present. The unsystematic literature review approach incorporates multiple elements of wasteland discourse, like understanding the meaning of the term on a global scale, setting out the meaning of the term waste into multiple perspectives explicitly in the Indian con-text, along with different classes and management approaches of wasteland from a national per-spective. The multiple perspectives of wasteland not only generate misconception on land resource but spawn difficulties in land use policy particularly for Indian scenario. For sustainable land use policy, reclaiming wasteland would be the best possible way for India and other countries in Global South, which requires a comprehensive methodological overview on wasteland narrative.

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“…They divide villages, neighbourhoods, families, and subjectivities. They lead some affected smallholders into more or less reluctantly signing off their land; others more or less ambivalently find their way into antidispossession politics (Das 2016); others refuse the dichotomy altogether and opt for a contradictory game of hedging betspublicly mobilising to stop the land dispossession from being carried out, while privately positioning themselves to benefit from the anticipated arrival of industrial jobs (see also Majumder and Nielsen 2017;. To yet others the felt contradictions simply lead to confusion and paralysis.…”

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Compounding aspirations: grounding hegemonic processes in India's rural transformations

Jakobsen

Nielsen

2019

Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'ét

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The Politics of Land, Consent, and Negotiation: Revisiting the Development-Displacement Narratives from Singur in West Bengal

Cited by 8 publications

References 16 publications

Reappraising Natures and Perspectives of Wasteland in the Developing World with a Focus on India

Reappraising Natures and Perspectives of Wasteland in the Developing World with a Focus on India

Reappraising Natures and Perspectives of <em>Wasteland </em>in Developing World with a Focus on India

Compounding aspirations: grounding hegemonic processes in India's rural transformations

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