Law Struggles and Hegemonic Processes in Neoliberal India: Gramscian Reflections on Land Acquisition Legislationстатья из журнала
Аннотация: AbstractAbstractThis article explores how, in the context of an unfolding process of neoliberalisation in India, new terrains of resistance are crystallising for subaltern groups seeking to contest the marginalising consequences of this process. We focus particularly on the emergence of India's 'new rights agenda' through a study of the making of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2013. Conceiving of the emergence of the 'new rights agenda' as a hegemonic process, we decipher how law-making is a complex and contradictory practice seeking to negotiate a compromise equilibrium between, on the one hand, subaltern groups vulnerable to marginalisation and capable of mobilisation; and, on the other, dominant groups whose economic interests are linked to the exploitation of the spaces of accumulation recently pried open by market-oriented reforms. The negotiation of this equilibrium, we suggest, is ultimately intended to facilitate India's process of neoliberalisation.EXTRACTO - este Artículo explora como, en el contexto de un proceso en desarrollo de neo-liberalización en India, nuevos terrenos de resistencia se cristalizan para grupos subalternos buscando cuestionar las consecuencias marginalizadoras de este proceso. Se enfoca particularmente en el nacimiento de una "agenda de nuevos derechos" en India a través del estudio de la creación de la Ley del Derecho a una Compensación Justa y Transparencia en la Adquisición de Tierras, Rehabilitación y Re-colonización, de 2013. Conscientes del nacimiento de la "agenda de nuevos derechos" como un proceso hegemónico, desciframos cómo la construcción de la ley es una práctica compleja y contradictoria que busca negociar un equilibrio entre, de una parte, grupos subalternos vulnerables a la marginalización y capaces de movilizarse y, de otra parte, los grupos dominantes cuyos intereses económicos van atados a la explotación de los espacios de acumulación recientemente llevados al desarrollo de reformas orientadas al mercado. Se sugiere que la negociación de este equilibrio está en últimas orientada a la facilitación del proceso de neo-liberalización de la India.Keywords: land acquisitionIndiahegemonic processesresistancelaw-making AcknowledgementsEarlier versions of this article were presented at the workshop on 'Democracy, Development and Social Movements in India and China' at the University of Oslo, Norway, 14 October 2013; at a SUM Forum at the Centre for Development and the Environment in Oslo, 5 November 2013; at the conference on 'The Return of the Land Question: Dispossession, Livelihoods, and Contestation in India's Capitalist Transition' at the Institute of Development Studies in Kolkata, India, 4–6 March 2014; at the workshop on 'New Terrains of Resistance in Neoliberal India' at the British Association of South Asian Studies conference at the University of London, 2–4 April 2014; and at a SUM Research School seminar on 29 April 2014. We are grateful to the participants for their comments and input. Special thanks are due to Mark Amen, Dan Banik, Achin Chakrabarty, Anthony D'Costa, Barry Gills, Maren Olene Kloster, Desmond McNeill, Mritiunjoy Mohanty, and Manish Thakur. The constructive comments of the editors of Globalizations and the two anonymous reviewers were gratefully received.Additional informationNotes on contributorsKenneth Bo Nielsen is a social anthropologist and researcher at the University of Oslo's Centre for Development and the Environment. His research focuses on grassroots struggles against land acquisitions in the Indian state of West Bengal, and on Indian politics and society more broadly. Nielsen is the co-editor of several books, including Trysts with Democracy: Political Practice in South Asia (Anthem Press, 2011) and a forthcoming volume on The Politics of Caste in West Bengal (Routledge).Notes on contributorsAlf Gunvald Nilsen is associate professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Bergen. He is the author of Dispossession and Resistance in India: The River and the Rage (Routledge, 2010) and We Make Our Own History: Marxism and Social Movements in the Twilight of Neoliberalism (Pluto Press, 2014). His research centres on social movements in the global South, with a particular focus on India.
Год издания: 2014
Авторы: Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Alf Gunvald Nilsen
Издательство: Taylor & Francis
Источник: Globalizations
Ключевые слова: Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development, Political Economy and Marxism, Political theory and Gramsci
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Том: 12
Выпуск: 2
Страницы: 203–216