The political economy and geopolitical context of India's economic crisis, 1990–91
Balance of payments ; Economic crisis ; Economic policy ; Geopolitics ; India ; International relations ; Neo liberalism ; Political geography ; Political party ; Role of the State
Balanza de pagos ; Crisis económica ; Geografía política ; Geopolítica ; India ; Neoliberalismo ; Partido político ; Política económica ; Relaciones internacionales ; Rol del Estado
This paper examines the national and global causes and context of India's economic crisis and adoption of neoliberal policies. It analyses how the earlier-established relationship between revenue generation and expenditure ran into trouble; what
of the ‘world market’; and the rise of the United States as the only global superpower. It concludes that India's economic crisis of 1990–91, and the neoliberal policies that followed, are products of contingent historical and geographical conditions.
India’s urban revolution: geographies of displacement beyond gentrification
Delhi ; India ; Land policy ; Right to the city ; Slum ; Social class ; Social geography ; Urban development ; Urbanism
Clase social ; Derecho a la ciudad ; Desarrollo urbano ; Geografía social ; India ; Política territorial ; Tugurio ; Urbanismo
This article examines geographies of displacement beyond gentrification in the context of India’s urban revolution. It shows that gentrification theory operates on four implicit presumptions, which fail to characterize the primary dynamics of urban
change in India. These include: (1) the presumption that lower-class displacement is driven by a reinvestment of capital into disinvested spaces; (2) a property centrism; (3) an agnosticism on the question of extraeco-nomic force; and (4) the presumption
Calcutta ; Forced migration ; India ; Muslims ; Pakistan ; Political geography ; Refugees ; Squatter ; Twentieth Century ; Urban area ; Urbanization ; West Bengal
Asentamiento ilegal ; Bengala occidental ; Calcuta ; Espacio urbano ; Geografía política ; India ; Migración forzada ; Musulmanes ; Pakistán ; Refugiados ; Siglo 20 ; Urbanización
environments to which they are displaced. Second, it aims to historicise current discussions of communalism in India by linking them to the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 and to interrogate the ways in which the latter continues to haunt urbanisation
in India. The article thus reveals some of the ways in which various ‘marginal’ groups displace and dominate each other enabling the spatialisation of Hindu hegemony.
Amorphous family nexus : an analytical tool in considering community/m-MGO Haritika’s ties in Bundelkhand, Central India
Community ; India ; Living conditions ; Madhya Pradesh ; Non-governmental organization ; Rural area ; Social geography ; Sustainable development ; UttarPradesh ; Village
Comunidad ; Condiciones de vida ; Desarrollo sostenible ; Espacio rural ; Geografía social ; India ; Madhya Pradesh ; Organización no gubernamental ; Pueblo ; Uttar Pradesh
Regional differences pose challenges for food security policy : a case study of India
Caste ; Diet ; Economic development ; Economic growth ; Food security ; Health ; Household ; India ; Regional disparities ; Regional economy ; Religion
Casta ; Crecimiento económico ; Desarrollo económico ; Desnivel entre las regiones ; Dieta ; Economía regional ; India ; Religión ; Salud ; Seguridad alimentaria ; Unidad familiar
controls, and to identify the specific factors that play prominent roles in sediment transport controls and concentration of the beach placers at Manavalakurichi, along the southwest coast of India. Numerical simulations linking bathymetry, hydrodynamics
Decentralization and the cultural politics of natural resource management in Kerala, India
Community ; Cultural policy ; Dam ; Decentralization ; Ecology ; Empowerment ; India ; Kerala ; Planning ; Political ecology ; Resource management ; Role of the State ; Watershed
Comunidad ; Cuenca hidrográfica ; Descentralización ; Ecología ; Ecología política ; Gestión de los recursos ; India ; Kerala ; Planificación ; Política cultural ; Represa ; Rol del Estado
This article examines decentralization and the cultural politics of natural resource management in Kerala, India. The proposed construction of a dam along the Chalakkudy River will displace two colonies of the Kadar tribe in Chalakkudy
Elephant ; Human ecology ; India ; Mobility ; Relations between human and animal bodies ; United Kingdom
Ecología humana ; India ; Movilidad ; Reino Unido
This paper seeks to develop a ‘more-than-human’ cosmopolitanism that accounts for the presence of nonhuman animals and entities in stories of circulation and contact. Through a multi-sited ethnography of elephant conservation in India and the UK
China ; Employment ; Family ; Gender ; Germany ; India ; Institution ; International migration ; Labour migration ; Migratory flow ; Mobility ; Professional qualification ; Role of the State ; Sweden
Alemaña ; Calificación profesional ; China ; Empleo ; Familia ; Flujo migratorio ; Género ; India ; Institución ; Migración de trabajo ; Migración internacional ; Movilidad ; Rol del Estado ; Suecia
Dans cette partie consacrée aux instutions et à la mobilité des personnes qualifiées, on trouvera les articles suivants : 1-Transnational spaces ‘from above’ – The role of institutions in promoting highly skilled labour migration from India
Ecología ; Ecología política ; Fauna ; India ; Legislación ; Vida salvaje
This paper explores turtle conservation in Odisha, India, to map the complicated ways in which animal well-being is pursued in the contemporary world. Using insights from Foucault’s work on biopolitics, it offers an account of conservation
Alcoholism ; Applied ecology ; Assam ; Conflict ; Elephant ; Ethology ; India ; Livelihood ; Political ecology ; Relations between human and animal bodies ; Rural economy ; Rural population
Alcoholismo ; Conflicto ; Ecología aplicada ; Ecología política ; Economía rural ; Etología ; India ; Población rural
This paper examines the role of materials in mediating people’s relationships with elephants in rural Assam, northeast India. It shows that materials, in this case alcohol,binds people and elephants in unforeseen ways. This examination of social
Activism ; Ahmedabad ; Caste ; Cultural studies ; Democracy ; Ethnic minority ; Gujarat ; India ; Mobilisation ; Political geography
Activismo ; Casta ; Cultural ; Democracia ; Geografía política ; Gujarat ; India ; Minoría étnica ; Movilización
This work examines the politicized use of street theatre by an adivasi (indigenous) community in the city of Ahmedabad, India. It considers Chharas’ deployment as a socio-spatial tactic in two interlocking registers : first, as a means through which
Biofuel ; Economy ; Energy ; Energy policy ; Europe ; Governance ; India ; Land use ; South Africa ; Sustainable development ; United Kingdom
Aprovechamiento del suelo ; Biocarburante ; Desarrollo sostenible ; Economía ; Energía ; Europa ; Gobernancía ; India ; Política energética ; Reino Unido ; África del Sur
policy processes in India and South Africa ; 3-Science in carbon economies: debating what counts in US biofuel governance ; 4-Biofuels and the politics of land-use change: tracing the interactions of discourse and place in European policy making ; 5
Applied geography ; Bangladesh ; Critical geography ; Frontier ; Georgia ; India ; Political geography ; Power ; Refugees ; Sovereignty
Frontera ; Geografía aplicada ; Geografía crítica ; Geografía política ; Georgia ; India ; Poder ; Refugiados ; Soberanía
The AA. analyse aleatory sovereignty and the rule of sensitive spaces through the examples of Re-public of Georgia and on the border between India and Bangladesh. They demonstrate that camps and borders not only as the outcomes of humanitarian