The Micropolitics of Dispossession and Resistance: Case Study of a Proposed Dam in Central India

This article presents a study of the micropolitics of dispossession for a proposed medium‐sized irrigation project in an Adivasi region of Central India. The article explores the complex micropolitics of dispossession and collective action in the project planning stage, long before the formal processes of land acquisition actually begin. It highlights the importance of training the researchers’ gaze on the functioning of the local state in the pre‐acquisition phase. It shows how the local state uses various powers of exclusion to fracture emerging cross‐class, multi‐caste alliances, while maintaining formal compliance with a range of social safeguard policies aimed at protecting vulnerable groups and fragile landscapes. The ‘everyday’ decisions of local state actors during the project planning stage produce site‐specific, differentiated and shifting matrices of risks and opportunities for the local people, who are already divided along class and caste lines. This, in turn, is likely to inform their political responses at the actual moment of enclosure. Thus the durability and success of anti‐dispossession collective action is likely to vary depending on the dynamic interactions of local state and non‐state actors, mediated by regional electoral politics and the overall safeguard policy regime governing land acquisition.     

THE TRUE COLORS OF DALAI LAMA

The International Shugden Community organized a protest for religious freedom in Italy on June 14th and 15th at the Modigliani forum. I was fortunate to attend this protest organized by the International Shugden Community and 500 other supporters from 15 to 20 countries to ask the Dalai Lama to stop lying and allow religious freedom to all.     

Tibetan Doctoral Graduates to change Tibet

At present,Tibetan PhD's are playing key roles in the advancement of Tibetan culture,medicine,science,technology,economy and society in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). According to survey results recently revealed by the Science and Technology Association of TAR,to date,over 60 Tibetan doctoral graduates are working at the frontier of production and research programs in TAR.The data reveals that an equal number of them are working in natural and social science.About one third of     

KARMA WANGDU AND HIS BRONZE STATUE COMPANY

正Tracing back along the Tsachu River from the city of Chamdo,a branch of the Lancangjiang River,you will find the well-known village of Onda Gang 70 kilometers away,where the villagers make a living forging all kinds of Buddhist statues with metal.The artisans in Onda Gang produce most of the Buddhist statues in the monasteries of Chamdo and Garze and     

＂The Excellences of the Republic＂ Produced on the Roof of the World

Since its peaceful liberation, Tibet, at the roof of the world, has been keeping abreast with the motherland to constantly renew its progress.     

当代藏族人的活佛观(英文)

<正>Introduction This article relies on a combination of questionnaires and interviews in an attempt to understand contemporary Tibetans' basic opinions of and attitudes towards incarnate lamas.     

FORESTATION PROJECT IN SHIGATSE PREFECTURE

Tlbetan legend has it that many years ago the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau was originally an extensive ocean.One day,a vicious fiveheaded dragon entered this ocean and brought catastrophe to all local creatures.So Heaven sent five fairies to conquer the vicious dragon.Forming a long-term strategy to prevent any catastrophe which might be brought about by the vicious dragon,the five fairies forced the ocean to retreat and converted the eastern part of what was once the ocean to a primitive forest and the western...     

DRIVERS' STORIES IN THE HIGHLAND

According to the older generation,the sun in winter has its own master,in particularly in Tibet.This is a good season to enjoy drinking tea while basking in sunlight and listening to stories.In the winter of 2009,I made an appointment with Tsering,Lhadon,Mr.Liu and Mr. Qian who had all previously served with the Lhasa Transportation Company.We sat together in the garden of the former transportation company chatting in the sun about the life of drivers who we called the True men of Tibet or Emperors behin...