期刊
ANTIPODE
卷 49, 期 4, 页码 977-996出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/anti.12219
关键词
enclosure; energy dispossessions; wastelands; prosopis; jatropha
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资金
- Fulbright IIE Program
- Yale Program in Agrarian Studies
- Yale South Asian Studies Program
- Yale Center for Industrial Ecology
This paper analyzes why and how wasteland development narratives persist through an evaluation of wasteland development policies in India from 1970 to present. Integrating critical scholarship on environmental narratives and enclosures, I find that narratives of wastelands as empty spaces available for improvement continue because they are metaphors for entrenched struggles between the government's shifting visions of improvement and communities whose land use practices contradict these logics. Since the 1970s, improvement has meant establishing different types of tree plantations on wastelands to ostensibly provide energy security. These projects have dispossessed land users by enclosing common property lands and by providing forms of energy incommensurate with local needs, a trend I term energy dispossessions. Factors enabling energy dispossessions include the government's increased attempts to establish public-private partnerships to carry out improvement and a field of observation constructed to obscure local livelihoods. Unveiling these logics will help to problematize and contest future iterations of wasteland development.
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