The unfixed state of unfixed land
Land is unfixed. Qualitative research in India shows humans physically reconfiguring, legally redefining, politically re-labeling and discursively reimagining land in growth and investmentled policies. The state is a key actor in the material and conceptual unfixing of land, and its refixing to emer...
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| description | Land is unfixed. Qualitative research in India shows humans physically reconfiguring, legally redefining, politically re-labeling and discursively reimagining land in growth and investmentled policies. The state is a key actor in the material and conceptual unfixing of land, and its refixing to emerging developmental imaginations. But land is not just a territorial container for the implementation of policy. Instead, it routinely stretches the boundaries of state authority. In my field sites, unfixed, multi-dimensional land emerges as contested access, social and political territory-making, possession that goes beyond the legality of property, and more. As unfixed land extends past the boundaries and authority of the state, the state too is stretched in projects of land’s unfixing and re-fixing. This state is revealed as porous, and with a crisscrossing of social relationships that draw out its institutional bounds into a world of moonlighting officials, revolving doors, and shadowy actors and transactions over unfixed land. The result of this co-productive interaction is the unfixed state of unfixed land. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:c319d844-8b81-4fa3-b167-4d4bec7aeb4a2022-03-27T06:13:59ZThe unfixed state of unfixed landJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:c319d844-8b81-4fa3-b167-4d4bec7aeb4aEnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordWiley2019Sud, NLand is unfixed. Qualitative research in India shows humans physically reconfiguring, legally redefining, politically re-labeling and discursively reimagining land in growth and investmentled policies. The state is a key actor in the material and conceptual unfixing of land, and its refixing to emerging developmental imaginations. But land is not just a territorial container for the implementation of policy. Instead, it routinely stretches the boundaries of state authority. In my field sites, unfixed, multi-dimensional land emerges as contested access, social and political territory-making, possession that goes beyond the legality of property, and more. As unfixed land extends past the boundaries and authority of the state, the state too is stretched in projects of land’s unfixing and re-fixing. This state is revealed as porous, and with a crisscrossing of social relationships that draw out its institutional bounds into a world of moonlighting officials, revolving doors, and shadowy actors and transactions over unfixed land. The result of this co-productive interaction is the unfixed state of unfixed land. |
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