Nielsen, Kenneth Bo, Bedi, Heather Plumridge, and Da Silva, Solano

The Goa Requisition and Acquisition of Property Bill, 2017 and the Goa Compensation to the Project Affected Persons and Vesting of Land in the Government Bill, 2017 are the latest additions to the state government’s arsenal of...

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Da Silva, Solano, Nielsen, Kenneth Bo, and Bedi, Heather Plumridge

This article seeks to understand the role of land use planning in India's neoliberal regime of dispossession. Analyzing the relationship between planning and land dispossession in the state of Goa, we view planning processes...

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Bedi, Heather Plumridge

Solar energy represents a fossil fuel alternative to meet India’s rising energy demand. Large mega-watt solar projects require contiguous land, which is sparse in the South Indian state of Kerala. Drawing from ethnographic...

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Nielsen, Kenneth Bo and Bedi, Heather Plumridge

India has over the recent decade witnessed a spate of land transfers as Special Economic Zones, extractive industries, or real estate dispossess farmers, land owners, and indigenous groups of their land. As a result, struggles...

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Bedi, Heather Plumridge

Passports and visas permit entry, but may also limit entry or the assertion of rights. Passports and visas symbolically and simultaneously represent the ability and inability for citizens to enter particular territories....

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