Neoliberal Development, Sustainability and the Production of Fictitious Commodity: Some Cases from the Adivasi Region in India

Abstract

The dynamics of capitalism changes its form and analyzing it nowadays is impossible without bringing in ecology. James 0 Connor has theorized this in terms of what he calls the second contradiction of capitalism. Modernization theories of development deal with economic growth, which contributes to increased productivity of goods and services that treat nature, humans and ecologt; as raw materials for generating surplus and profit. The structure of capitalist relations, and the way they produce new forms of destitution, marginalization, impoverishment and poverty, are invisible in State accounts that advocate a neoliberal accumulative path of development in the name of bettering socieh;. In this paper we try to show that how the capitalist social formation often neglected the ecosystem and the traditional social structure which progressively induced resistance and conflict. The contemporan; context of neoliberal capitalism appears as a post political condition in which state helps in rise of capitalist frontier which politicizes the whole ecologt;. The present study follows the literature of political economy to give chain of explanation about the societal transformation due to rise of region specific commodih; frontier in West Singhbhum and Kalinga Nagar and at the same time we also tn; to show that how sustainabilihj becomes a green agenda of capitalism to achieve the production goal through market rationality.