Dispossessing irrigators: Water grabbing,supply-side growth and farmer resistance in India |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Science and Health, Hawkesbury Campus, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia;2. Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia;3. Local Government Service Department for Housing, Human Settlements, and Lands, Cianjur District, West Java Province, Indonesia;1. IWMI, Nepal;2. IWMI, India;3. CIMMYT, Nepal;1. Direction de la recherche forestière, ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs, 2700 rue Einstein, Québec, Québec G1P 3W8, Canada;2. Previous Address: Centre ACER, 656, rang Notre-Dame-des-champs, Pohénégamook, Québec, Québec G0L 1J0, Canada;3. Current Address: 2148 rue Ainsley, Thetford Mines, Québec, Québec G6G 6T5, Canada;12. University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, USA;13. Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan;14. Johns Hopkins University-Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Medical College Clinical Trials Unit, Pune, India;15. African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya;p. College of Medicine of the University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria;q. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA;r. Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA;s. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA;t. University of Westminster, London, UK;u. Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA;v. Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;w. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia;x. American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon;y. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA;z. Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA;11. Anode Governance Lab, Bengaluru, India;12. Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA;13. Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA;14. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA;15. McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada;16. Universidad Autónoma del Beni José Ballivián, Bolivia;17. Autonomous University of Coahuila, Coahuila, Mexico;18. International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh, Mohakhali, Dhaka, 1212, Bangladesh;19. Hospital Agustin O''Horan, Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico;110. University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA;111. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands;112. Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA;113. Delaware State University, Dover, DE, USA;114. Bahir-Dar University, Bahir-Dar, Ethiopia;1. University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA;2. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA;3. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA;4. Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA;5. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada;6. Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA;7. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA;8. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA;9. University of the West of England, Bristol, UK;10. University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, USA;11. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA |
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| Abstract: | This paper examines, first, the conditions under which irrigating farmers are being alienated from their water through a state-led process of dispossession, and then, second, details the dialectical process of farmers’ resistance to these efforts. The paper advances recent scholarship on water grabbing and ‘accumulation by dispossession’ by drawing on a case from northwestern India to explore the connections between non-agrarian economic growth, irrigated agriculture and farmer livelihoods. Specifically, it examines an urban water infrastructure development project that aims to provide water to Jaipur, the Indian state of Rajasthan’s capital city, through the appropriation of an existing rural dam/reservoir complex built for irrigation and redirecting it to domestic, commercial and industrial uses. Drawing on an examination of policy documents and interviews with farmers and state planners, this paper argues that these transfers must be understood as a supply-side solution to support economic growth, where the lack of stable water supplies is a barrier to capital accumulation. The paper contributes to critical scholarship by showing that the processes underpinning water’s reallocation are specific acts of ongoing ‘dispossession’ through extra-economic means under advanced neoliberal capitalism, which alienates water away from peasant producers towards new centers of capital accumulation, dialectically creating peasant resistance to these efforts. |
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| Keywords: | Water grabbing Agrarian change Accumulation by dispossession Irrigation Political ecology India |
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