Tag: land acquisition
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A Critical reflection on the legal framework around land acquisition and rehabilitation and resettlement in India.
Submitted by: Tanaya Hazarika Introduction Land struggles in India have increasingly been centred around a new type of activism, termed as ‘law struggles’ that includes collective action aimed towards achieving the introduction of laws that safeguard the rights of the dispossessed and subaltern groups (Nielsen and Nilsen, 2017). And oftentimes it is observed that the…
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Enclosure Movement and the idea of neoliberal capitalist development
It is found that inherent in the idea of private property, as it was crystallized in England around the 16th and 17th centuries during the Enclosure Movements, is the idea of improvement. Predominantly it was improvement through one’s labour that became the justifying ground for owning land individually and marking it off from the commons.…
Northeast Development Agency (NEDA) 