Mining-induced displacement and tribal resistance: The case of Odisha, India

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-01-29 DOI:10.1016/j.erss.2025.103950

Jayaram Singh Samal

{"title":"Mining-induced displacement and tribal resistance: The case of Odisha, India","authors":"Jayaram Singh Samal","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.103950","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Minerals are one of the natural resources around which conflicts are taking place all over the world. Mining witnessed conflict over different claims and ways of using these resources. This conflicting claim on mineral resources is not only challenging the present development model. It is also creating conditions for the emergence of anti-mining movements. Based on an extensive empirical survey, the study examines the complex process of the emergence of the politics of resistance and protest in various mining projects in Odisha, India. The study focuses on resistance to two large-scale mining projects. Both cases, one located in Lanjigarh, Kalahandi district, and the other in Kalinganagar, Jajpur district, are in Odisha. The contrasting outcomes of both cases raise questions about the factors that determine the success and failures of these struggles. It analyzes the development of a different approach to the politics of resistance in Lanjigarh compared to Kalinganagar. It also explores the intricate connection between mineral extraction, the autonomy of local socio-cultural processes, and how they are linked to global capital.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"121 ","pages":"Article 103950"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9000,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Energy Research & Social Science","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629625000313","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

Minerals are one of the natural resources around which conflicts are taking place all over the world. Mining witnessed conflict over different claims and ways of using these resources. This conflicting claim on mineral resources is not only challenging the present development model. It is also creating conditions for the emergence of anti-mining movements. Based on an extensive empirical survey, the study examines the complex process of the emergence of the politics of resistance and protest in various mining projects in Odisha, India. The study focuses on resistance to two large-scale mining projects. Both cases, one located in Lanjigarh, Kalahandi district, and the other in Kalinganagar, Jajpur district, are in Odisha. The contrasting outcomes of both cases raise questions about the factors that determine the success and failures of these struggles. It analyzes the development of a different approach to the politics of resistance in Lanjigarh compared to Kalinganagar. It also explores the intricate connection between mineral extraction, the autonomy of local socio-cultural processes, and how they are linked to global capital.

查看原文本刊更多论文

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Energy Research & Social Science ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

CiteScore

14.00

自引率

16.40%

发文量

441

审稿时长

55 days

期刊介绍： Energy Research & Social Science (ERSS) is a peer-reviewed international journal that publishes original research and review articles examining the relationship between energy systems and society. ERSS covers a range of topics revolving around the intersection of energy technologies, fuels, and resources on one side and social processes and influences - including communities of energy users, people affected by energy production, social institutions, customs, traditions, behaviors, and policies - on the other. Put another way, ERSS investigates the social system surrounding energy technology and hardware. ERSS is relevant for energy practitioners, researchers interested in the social aspects of energy production or use, and policymakers. Energy Research & Social Science (ERSS) provides an interdisciplinary forum to discuss how social and technical issues related to energy production and consumption interact. Energy production, distribution, and consumption all have both technical and human components, and the latter involves the human causes and consequences of energy-related activities and processes as well as social structures that shape how people interact with energy systems. Energy analysis, therefore, needs to look beyond the dimensions of technology and economics to include these social and human elements.