How do societies negotiate the apparently competing agendas of environmental protection
and social justice? Why do some countries perform much better than others on this front …

ABSTRACT Gujarat is Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home State and training
ground. His Gujarat Model is projected as growth and development oriented. This article …

November 2021 marked the 20th anniversary of the conception of BRICS. Two decades
have passed since the acronym BRIC–Brazil, Russia, India, China–was brought into our …

Under conditions of market-orientation and globalization, land is being transferred from
agriculture and common property uses, to corporate farming, private industry, and the …

What is land and how is it made? In this path-breaking study of sites in western, eastern, and
southern India, Nikita Sud argues that land is not simply the solid surface of the earth. It is …

Gender is largely under‐theorized in the now well‐developed literature on dispossession;
this paper contributes to the analysis of the gender dimensions of dispossession by bringing …

There has been much discussion recently on the 'great Indian land grab', that is, the
acquisition of productive land by the government, and the handing over of this land to large …

As states concentrate their developmental capacities in space, the sub-national scale has
emerged as a focal point of policy-making in India. The rescaled spatiality of the state is …

ABSTRACT Both China and India have witnessed extensive land expropriation by the state
from farmers for use in industrialisation and urbanisation projects. Land conflicts have …

Commentators contemplating the hold of Hindutva in Gujarat swing between anxiously
wondering whether it shows where the rest of the country is headed and complacent …