TY - JOUR
T1 - The sun and the scythe
T2 - energy dispossessions and the agrarian question of labor in solar parks
AU - Stock, Ryan
AU - Birkenholtz, Trevor
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was generously supported by the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad fellowship under [grant number P022A170064]. We extend our heartfelt gratitude to friends, respondents, colleagues and key informants in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh. Special thanks to Pradipsinh Parmar, Vasae MD Munawar and Lakshmi Reddy Yeruva for fieldwork support. We dedicate this article to Shilpa, Shyan and Lakshay.
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Green grabbing is accelerating throughout the Global South to facilitate climate change mitigation. This paper illuminates the discursive and extra-economic means through which the state dispossesses agropastoralists of both land and energy to develop solar parks in semi-arid rural India. We advance the empirical and theoretical aspects of energy dispossessions, with implications for the agrarian question of labor. Using data obtained from mixed methods fieldwork, this research reestablishes the urgency of responding to the classical agrarian question in the context of low-carbon energy transitions.
AB - Green grabbing is accelerating throughout the Global South to facilitate climate change mitigation. This paper illuminates the discursive and extra-economic means through which the state dispossesses agropastoralists of both land and energy to develop solar parks in semi-arid rural India. We advance the empirical and theoretical aspects of energy dispossessions, with implications for the agrarian question of labor. Using data obtained from mixed methods fieldwork, this research reestablishes the urgency of responding to the classical agrarian question in the context of low-carbon energy transitions.
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U2 - 10.1080/03066150.2019.1683002
DO - 10.1080/03066150.2019.1683002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85076900949
SN - 0306-6150
VL - 48
SP - 984
EP - 1007
JO - Journal of Peasant Studies
JF - Journal of Peasant Studies
IS - 5
ER -
