Project

Landlessness and Collective Violent REsistance to Mining Induced Displacement and Resettlement (MIDR) in Developing Countries: The Case of Anti-Phulbari Coal Mining Movement in Bangladesh

Code
01W01815
Duration
01 October 2015 → 30 September 2021
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Economic development, innovation, technological change and growth
    • Economic geography
    • Human geography
    • Recreation, leisure and tourism geography
    • Urban and regional geography
    • Other social and economic geography
    • Applied sociology
    • Social and cultural anthropology
  • Engineering and technology
    • Urban and regional design, development and planning
Keywords
landlessness land politics Bangladesh violent resistance mining
 
Project description

This research project explores the role of landless people in collective resistance to Mining-Induced Displacement and Resettlement (MIDR)caused by the Phulbari Coal Mining project (Bangladesh). It explores the relationship between landlessness, forced displacement, exclusion, and collective resistance to fill a gap in MIDR scholarship, which has almost exclusively paid attention to effects of MIDR on people with formal land-rights.