The poetics and politics of ‘progress’ in neoliberal India: The state and its margins in Shanghai (2012)

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-34
Author(s):  
Proshant Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
State Power ◽  
The State ◽  
Special Economic Zone ◽  
Land Acquisition ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Political Dissent ◽  
Indian State ◽  
World Class ◽  
Economic Zone ◽  
Neoliberal India

The contemporary Indian state is exemplified by contradictions. Its workings are marked by a simultaneous retreat and deepening of state power under neoliberalism as well as burgeoning governmentalities that both produce and police political dissent. Such framings of the state problematize received political wisdom on the relations between centre and margin, state and government, citizen and subject. Anthropological approaches to the state map out its complex organizational logics, which are further embedded in the exercise of power and violence. Drawing on such approaches, this article examines the 2012 Indian film Shanghai, directed by Dibakar Banerjee. Based on Greek author Vassilis Vassilikos’ 1966 novel Z, Shanghai represents the contemporary neoliberal Indian state’s workings in the fictitious periurban town of Bharatnagar, slated to become a world-class Special Economic Zone. However, when a left-wing activist opposing land acquisition is fatally injured in an ‘accident’, a state bureaucrat’s investigation unravels how the onward march of pragati (‘progress’) is undergirded by violence. Taking Shanghai as an example of ‘realist fiction’, I examine both representations and realities of the neoliberal Indian state using a thick and nuanced reading of the film’s narrative, cinematic details, context and characters, situating them in anthropological discussions on the state and its margins in contemporary India.

The Nexus between Sovereignty and ‘Eminent Domain’ under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, and the Land Act, 2013

Social Change ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-187
Author(s):  
Meenakshi Gogoi
Keyword(s):  
Eminent Domain ◽  
The State ◽  
Land Acquisition ◽  
Sovereign Power ◽  
Public Purpose ◽  
Land Acquisitions ◽  
The People ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Fair Compensation ◽  
The Right

The Indian state has used the colonial Land Acquisition Act (LAA), 1894, for acquiring land even without the consent of the people in the name of ‘public purpose’ and on payment of compensation, until it got repealed by a new act, the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisitions, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013. The LAA, 1894 is an expression of the notion of ‘eminent domain’ and draws its sustenance from the sovereignty of the state. The understanding of sovereignty and to what extent the sovereign power of the state can use the concept of ‘eminent domain’ in the context of land acquisition remains a contentious issue. This article attempts to examine the notion of sovereignty and use of ‘eminent domain’ in the context of land acquisition in India. How does the inter-relationship between sovereignty and ‘eminent domain’ be understood according to the LAA, 1894 and the Land Act, 2013 has been discussed.

An Analysis of the Feasibility of Private Land Assembly for Special Economic Zones in India

Urban Studies ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 49 (10) ◽  
pp. 2285-2300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Triyakshana Seshadri
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Special Economic Zone ◽  
Land Acquisition ◽  
Zone Model ◽  
Private Land ◽  
Special Economic Zones ◽  
Zone Development ◽  
Economic Zone ◽  
The Government ◽  
Economic Zones

India has used export processing zones as a development strategy since the mid 1960s. The performance of these zones did not meet expectations and, in 2001, the government changed the rules and the name, and recast them as special economic zones. Indian special economic zone policy was formulated to facilitate the private development of big industrial townships. This is a significant departure from the typical export zone model, where governments usually develop the zone and invite entrepreneurs to start firms within it. However, the zone policy is unlikely to achieve its objective because of land acquisition problems. This paper analyses the effect of land laws such as land ceiling and land use clauses, and the political nature of land dealings in the context of special economic zone development in India, and concludes that private land acquisition is not possible with the current structure of land laws in India, and that this is a primary problem for the private development in special economic zones in India.

scholarly journals Modelling for Industrial Land Acquisition for SEZ

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Pranab ◽  
Guhathakurta Kousik ◽  
Gupta Shatadru
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Special Economic Zone ◽  
Land Acquisition ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Land Price ◽  
Industrial Land ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Economic Zone

Emergence of a new operational paradigm in the form of Special Economic Zone (SEZ) and acquisition of industrial land therefore is one of the most controversial issues in India and a debatable issue in some parts in Asia in recent times. There is no doubt that it will lead to rapid industrial and economic growth. But the process of development is under question as local agitations against acquisition of land for the purpose have turned violent. Understanding the condition is important for the host country as well as the nations of Europe and the USA sourcing considerable amount of FDI flow. In this paper, we propose a model for industrial land acquisition which provides for rehabilitation of those displaced outside the perimeter of the SEZ, so that the appreciation of land price accrues to them and the land owner becomes a part of the prosperity that the project generates.

scholarly journals INVESTMENT POLICY FOR SHIP-BUILDING BRANCH

2018 ◽  
pp. 139-143
Author(s):  
Alexey Aleksandrovich Halyavkin ◽  
Natalia Aleksandrovna Safonova ◽  
Anna Yakovlevna Auslender
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Economic Effect ◽  
The State ◽  
Special Economic Zone ◽  
Investment Policy ◽  
State Support ◽  
Investment Activity ◽  
Shipbuilding Industry ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Economic Zone

In the context of globalization, the importance of improvement of the economy competitiveness is increasing. In order to develop the Russian industries, federal authorities have taken steps to implement the program approach. At the same time, among a wide variety of industries, the shipbuilding industry is recognized as one of the priority. The article identifies the trends in development of shipbuilding industry in Russia and abroad - investment activity. There has been considered the state, problems and priority directions of development of shipbuilding in the context of the investment policy implemented within the framework of the existing program of the Russian Federation for the development of shipbuilding. The direct and indirect influence of investments on the branches of the economy is analyzed, examples of attracting investments in the context of free placement of investments or limiting their presence in a country are given. The results of the state policy in the field of shipbuilding have been considered.The special features of shipbuilding production, the instability of the external environment have determined the specifics of investment in the industry. The analysis of investment mechanisms into the shipbuilding industry has been made on the example of tools of the state support at the level of the entities of the Russian Federation. The characteristics of the form of state support for special economic zone on the example of the “Lotos” economic zone (the Astrakhan region) have been considered. The economic zone in the Astrakhan region, due its geopolitical location and economic potential, will base on enterprises of shipbuilding complex; in this connection, there have been formulated conditions for characterizing efficiency of the special economic zone development. There have been shown the results of the general economic effect obtained due to investments in the region.

Angry spirits in the special economic zone

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Rose
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Special Economic Zone ◽  
The People ◽  
Economic Zone

Soon I after I arrived back in Oecussi the people of its coastal fringe were told to prepare for the mass expropriation of their land by the state. Jake’s family was one of these households. Through the story of how Jake’s grandmother, Marta, came down from the mountains as a girl and made a life by the sea, I show how resettled mountain folk have continued to engage with the land largely through spiritually mediated frameworks and understandings traceable to their highland origins. Through my own experience of an illness attributed by one of Mahata’s resident mediums (ahinet) to these spirits I grapple with the ways in which these understandings are manifested in somatic experience as well as readily articulated belief.

SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONES AS A FACTOR OF CREATION AND USE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OBJECTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 28-33
Author(s):  
S. V. KALINTSEV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
The State ◽  
Special Economic Zone ◽  
Special Economic Zones ◽  
Property Market ◽  
Vladimir Region ◽  
Economic Zone ◽  
Economic Zones

The article is devoted to the influence of special economic zones on the development of intellectual property in the Vladimir region. It should be noted that the article focuses on the special economic zone "Do-brograd-1" and how it can affect the state of the intellectual property market in the region.

Is economic inequality a universal evil?

2019 ◽  
pp. 91-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rostislav I. Kapeliushnikov
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
The State ◽  
Fair Play ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
The Public ◽  
Discursive Power ◽  
A Current

Using published estimates of inequality for two countries (Russia and USA) the paper demonstrates that inequality measuring still remains in the state of “statistical cacophony”. Under this condition, it seems at least untimely to pass categorical normative judgments and offer radical political advice for governments. Moreover, the mere practice to draw normative conclusions from quantitative data is ethically invalid since ordinary people (non-intellectuals) tend to evaluate wealth and incomes as admissible or inadmissible not on the basis of their size but basing on whether they were obtained under observance or violations of the rules of “fair play”. The paper concludes that a current large-scale ideological campaign of “struggle against inequality” has been unleashed by left-wing intellectuals in order to strengthen even more their discursive power over the public.

PENELITIAN ASPEK PERKOTAAN DUMAI DAN BITUNG DAN KEMUNGKINANNYA SEBAGAI LOKASI KAWASAN EKONOMI KHUSUS DI INDONESIA

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
CB Herman Edyanto
Keyword(s):  
Programming Model ◽  
National Income ◽  
Special Economic Zone ◽  
Good Prospect ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Processing Industry ◽  
North Sulawesi ◽  
Job Opportunity ◽  
Economic Zone ◽  
The Government

Special Economic Zone has been introduced as a new approach in Indonesia for regional development purposes on the basic of economic activities concentration. Some countries have run such project as part of national income and thus opening new job opportunity for the local people. A concept for its development need to be established since it also affects to the government’s expenditure. This is a chance for the government to open mind in creating new investment from other countries to Indonesia. Two cities have been chosen as cases of study namely Bitung – north Sulawesi Province and Dumai – Riau Province. The first is known as fish processing industry city whereas the second one is known as CPO processing industry city. This study has proved that Dumai has a good prospect as a special economic zone based on the application of Powersim dynamic programming model for its analysis.

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