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 and documents as constitutive parts of state-specific regimes of dispossession. We argue that planning in Goa emerges as a terrain of struggle between a state-capital nexus seeking to dispossess and convert land, and an organized citizenry seeking to use planning for alternative purposes. We show how the long-term trend in regional planning is one in which planning documents function predominantly to assemble land for private investments.

Da Silva, Salano, Kenneth Bo Nielsen, and Heather P. Bedi. Land Use Planning, Dispossession and Contestation in Goa, India. The Journal of Peasant Studies 47, no. 6 (2020): 1301-1326. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03066150.2020.1822822

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Heather Bedi is a professor of Environmental Studies at Dickinson College.

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Land Use Planning, Dispossession and Contestation in Goa, India is part of The Journal of Peasant Studie's Issue: Rural Land Dispossession in China and India. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fjps20/47/6

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