CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Nagpal, Sugandha |
|---|---|
| Title | Land Acquisition and Development? Exploring Narratives of Modernity at a Land Acquisition Site in Singrauli, India |
| Summary | The present study engages with the economic, social and political narratives of project affected persons (PAPs) at the site of the Indian government’s thermal energy plant in Singrauli, Madhya Pradesh. This study utilizes a grounded ethnographic framework to delineate the relationship between land acquisition and development. The experience of PAPs relays an alternative discourse of land acquisition, which runs contrary to dominant understandings of development. Contrary to the notion of a linear modernization process, PAPs depict mediated and contextualized modernization trajectories on the basis of caste and PAP type (old or new PAPs). It is found that despite the common move towards class mobility, old and new PAPs forge divergent conceptualizations of development. Moreover, they seek to maintain access to rural identities through a process of livelihood diversification that is spread between the rural and urban landscape. Thus, this research concludes that the study of development necessitates a focus on the ways in which different people interact with the forces of modernization and produce new subjectivities. |
| Supervisor | Dafinger, Andreas and Rajaram, Prem Kumar |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/nagpal_sugandha.pdf |
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