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

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,...

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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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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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