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...
Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) are the pre-project standard for outlining potential environmental and social risks related to large-scale mining. Incomplete or disingenuous EIAs mask the potential social, environmental...
Coal extraction and processing remains at the heart of energy security in India. As ever larger amounts of electricity are produced to support overall economic growth, this creates environmental justice challenges as people in...
The role of corporations in the Global South remains largely understudied in Development Geography, and yet in the last decade, corporate actors increasingly integrate social, environment and development challenges in their...
The Great Goa Land Grab charts how shifting state governments, politicians, and corporations have acquired large tracts of land in the Indian coastal state of Goa for a wide range of projects, including industrial enclaves,...
The politics of knowledge production reveals the exercise of power in societies, with narratives a key means to project national image. This article examines narratives used by Government of India representatives to frame...
Literature on fiscal federalism has long debated whether inter-jurisdictional competition between subnational units encourages a “race to the bottom”, with competition to attract mobile capital leading to lower taxation and...
The context for land resistance in liberalising India is dynamic. As the state promotes capital investment, lines between public and private are blurred. Land is central to these efforts, as new industries, mines, large-scale...
The world’s most populous democracy, India, has taken steps to transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. However, injustices related to nascent large-scale renewable efforts in India provide early warning that...
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...
