When 'green' becomes 'saffron': Wind extraction, border surveillance, and citizenship regime at the edge of the Indian state
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Low-carbon mega-infrastructures constitute one of the main institutional responses to climate change in India's agrarian settings, as they are imagined around features of 'greenness' and 'cleanness.' But this story entails a problematic construction of land, the reconfiguration of space for extractive development, and a complete disruption of agrarian social structures around features of exclusion and dispossession. This research adopts perspectives from political ecology to understand the persistence of class-caste relations, the legacy of coloniality, and the new citizenship regime underlying 'green' extractivism in India's low-carbon infrastructures. Wind turbines align with broad ethno-religious conceptions of Indian citizenship and space as Hindu, and their expansion over new border areas serves nationalist projects of territorial reconfiguration, cultural identity revivalism, border-making, and Muslim populations' surveillance.
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Wind power infrastructures become key sites for the expansion of extractive development and the assertion of state sovereignty aligning with the ethno-nationalist political project of reshaping land and space along religious and caste lines.
“He further argues that wind power infrastructures become key sites for the expansion of extractive development and the assertion of state sovereignty aligning with the ethno-nationalist political project of reshaping land and space along religious and caste lines.”
From The political ecologies of "green" extractivism(s): An introduction (2024) · cites this paper as Singh (2023, this Section)
The green transition not only conceals its extractive nature but also becomes entangled with forms of spatial reconfiguration, in this case, around nationalist projects.
“Similarly, David Singh (2023, this Section) demonstrates how the green transition not only conceals its extractive nature but also becomes entangled with forms of spatial reconfiguration, in this case, around nationalist projects.”
From The political ecologies of "green" extractivism(s): An introduction (2024) · cites this paper as David Singh (2023, this Section)
In India, an almost ready-made justification for the expulsion of Muslims from land is articulated in the emerging demand for so-called renewable energy, leading 'green' energy production to converge with Narendra Modi's ethno-nationalist project.
“Focusing on India, Singh illustrates how an almost ready-made justification for the expulsion of Muslims from land is articulated in the emerging demand for so-called renewable energy, leading 'green' energy production to converge with Narendra Modi's ethno-nationalist project.”
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The political ecologies of "green" extractivism(s): An introduction
Dunlap, A., Verweijen, J., & Tornel, C. (2024) · Journal of Political Ecology · doi:10.2458/jpe.6131 · Cited by 126 · see citing works
- Authors
- Singh, D.
- Affiliations
- University of East Anglia (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Singh, David
- ORCID
- Singh, David
- Venue
- Journal of Political Ecology
- Publisher
- University of Arizona
- Published
- 2023-10-21
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 1073-0451 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4385886852
- Cited by
- 16
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 3
- FWCI
- 6.90
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Political Ecology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Extractivism and Socioeconomic Issues
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Social Sciences and Humanities
- Keywords
- wind energy harvesting, green extractivism, citizenship regimes, border surveillance, low-carbon infrastructure, land dispossession, coloniality, Hindu nationalism, territorial reorganization, Muslim communities, bordering, political ecology, India
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