We demand work! ‘Dispossession’, patronage and village labour in Bibiyana, Bangladesh

Gardner, Katy

doi:10.1080/03066150.2018.1442326

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“…). The immediacy implied in the metaphor of the “grab” and a narrow focus on neoliberal crisis are revealed as misleading, since both bear the risk of forgetting about the past or overdetermining the future (Gardner ).…”

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“…Thus, besides the need to acknowledge that there is a history to current forms of dispossession (such as land grab's colonial predecessors), we also need to better understand how history is a constitutive part of current forms of dispossession (see Edelman et al 2013). The immediacy implied in the metaphor of the "grab" and a narrow focus on neoliberal crisis are revealed as misleading, since both bear the risk of forgetting about the past or overdetermining the future (Gardner 2018).…”

Section: Temporalitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…I thus argue for a deeper engagement with the concept of dispossession, and demonstrate the need to bring dispossession itself into view as something that deserves careful empirical study and conceptualisation. Doing so, I share the assessment that commonly referenced concepts of primitive accumulation (Marx ) or accumulation by dispossession (Harvey ) are useful to theorise the drivers behind dispossession (Glassman ; Levien ), but are often much less useful to gain a deeper understanding of processes and patterns of dispossession as they occur (Gardner ; Hart ; Kenney‐Lazar ; Li ). This paper contributes to these debates by (1) providing a critical reflection on the nexus of rural dispossession and farmland, (2) introducing empirical material that urges us to broaden and specify notions of rural dispossession, and (3) offering a conceptual framework to better understand forms of dispossession that result from gradual disintegration and devaluation rather than eventful “grabs”, concern socio‐political rather than natural resources, and unfold rather silently and slowly.…”

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Not About Land, Not Quite a Grab: Dispersed Dispossession in Rural Russia

Vorbrugg

2019

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In most literature in geography and agrarian studies, rural dispossession is neatly related to land rights or access, a trend that increased with debates about the recent wave of farmland investments worldwide. Drawing on long‐term fieldwork in rural Russia, this paper critiques that focus and the assumed nexus between rural dispossession and farmland, as is prevents an understanding of more dispersed stakes, modes and temporalities of dispossession. I introduce the concept of dispersed dispossession which advances our understanding of social and relational objects of dispossession beyond natural resources (such as sustaining institutions and infrastructures), and the tangled, complex, often slow and silent modes and temporalities of dispossession beyond spectacular events. I show how the concept sheds new light on current agrarian change in Russia, and how it contributes to debates on (rural) dispossession and “land grabs” more generally.

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Not About Land, Not Quite a Grab: Dispersed Dispossession in Rural Russia

Vorbrugg

2019

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“…Rather, it reflected a unique opportunity to exit the precarious conjunction of subsistence agriculture, faced with demographic pressure, and informal wage labour, and realise hopes of economic security through the possibility of a permanent, formal sector job. 5 Indeed, when considering dispossession we cannot simply assume that people naturally prefer to till the land (see also Gardner 2018;Levien 2018). Younger Santals, in particular, tend to see agriculture as difficult and unrewarding.…”

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Public sector employment, class mobility, and differentiation in a tribal coal mining village in India

Noy

2020

Contemporary South Asia

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India's adivasi, or tribal, communities have most often been depicted as homogeneous and egalitarian, at least compared to the entrenched social hierarchies that characterise rural caste society. This article draws on fieldwork in a mining-affected adivasi village in Jharkhand, eastern India, to consider how compensatory public sector employment for mining-induced land dispossession has contributed to new processes of stratification within adivasi society. On the one hand, compensatory employment allowed those who attained it to pursue increasingly common middle-class aspirations, and a considerable degree of class mobility. But on the other hand, it fostered new, enhanced forms of intra-adivasi differentiation -not only in terms of income but also consumption and lifestyle, education and children's life chances, and household and gender dynamics. New internal disparities, in turn, have acted to erode pre-existing elements of adivasi society that revolve around values of egalitarianism.

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“… 11 11 See Gardner 2018 for new ethnographic theories on the seizure of work and wages as dispossession. …”

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Behind the Scaffolding: Manipulations of Time, Delays, and Power in Tarlabaşı, Istanbul

Arıcan

2020

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Taksim 360, located in the Tarlabaşı neighborhood of Istanbul, is one of the first state-led urban transformation projects in Turkey. Originally scheduled to be finished in 2014, the project is still under construction. Concordant with broader discussions, Tarlabaşı's urban transformation has been largely studied through spatial lenses centered on accumulation by dispossession and displacement. These works assume that urban transformation projects necessarily follow a linear trajectory from inception to completion. Building on and diverging from this body of research, I examine the relationships between construction companies, subcontractors, and politicians involved in Taksim 360 through ethnographic fieldwork and media analysis with a critical emphasis on temporality. I argue that urban transformation in fact works through manipulations of time, which necessitates a temporal analytical lens that does not take teleologies of buildings projects for granted. It is specifically through delays that economic and political power is exerted, navigated, and negotiated within Taksim 360 using legal contracts, work stoppages, and stand-offs; conjuring of continued investment; and improvisations with labor and political capital. And so, delays emerge as modus operandi of urban transformation rather than measures of its failures or successes [Urban Transformation; Temporality; Accumulation; Istanbul; Turkey]

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We demand work! ‘Dispossession’, patronage and village labour in Bibiyana, Bangladesh

Cited by 9 publications

References 40 publications

Not About Land, Not Quite a Grab: Dispersed Dispossession in Rural Russia

Not About Land, Not Quite a Grab: Dispersed Dispossession in Rural Russia

Public sector employment, class mobility, and differentiation in a tribal coal mining village in India

Behind the Scaffolding: Manipulations of Time, Delays, and Power in Tarlabaşı, Istanbul

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