Negotiating Development at the Margins

Natural Resources, Conflicts, and People's Movements in Odisha

Anshuman Behera, Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan

• Publisher: Routledge India
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781032425245
• eBook ISBN: 9781000999280
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: American Government
• Index: History

This book critically examines various facets of conflicts involving people and the state arising due to the uneven distribution of natural resources. It provides an overview of the people's movements in Odisha, a resource-rich state in eastern India. Reflecting on the conceptual frameworks of conflict, it analyses violence, and struggle for rights over resources, and public policies around natural resources, alongside local strategies and governance.

Drawing from extensive field surveys in the villages of Kalahandi and undivided Koraput districts in Odisha, this volume explores the sociopolitical and economical aspects of people's movements instead of solely viewing them as political and security threats. The authors demonstrate the misappropriations of these movements by both the state and non-state actors for their vested interests. This book offers recommendations for policymakers to draw up a more ready response to mitigate and minimize the conflict and violence and implement equitable policies around land and resources. While doing so, the book also provides some primers to development perspectives, the role of natural resources and conditions under which the natural resources can result in conflict, and principles and practices to overcome such conflicts.

The volume will be an indispensable read for researchers and students of social history, social reform, tribal and indigenous studies, postcolonial studies, exclusion studies, development studies, political sociology, and South Asian studies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• 1 Natural Resource, Conflict, and People’s Movement in Odisha: A Primer
• 2 Development: What Is It and for Whom?
• 3 Conflicts over Natural Resources: Analysis of Conditions for Emergence and Strategies for Prevention
• 4 The Struggle for Rights and Resources: Understanding People’s Movements in Odisha
• 5 People’s Movement under a Revolutionary Brand: Understanding the Maoist Movement in Odisha
• 6 Conflict over Land Resources between Marginalized Groups: Interrogating Damba–Kandha Conflict in Koraput
• 7 Managing Conflicts over Natural Resources: A Way Forward
• Index