Rethinking development along the Coromandel Coast : Issues and Perspectives
In 2015 the Government of India announced a massive investment for the ‘integrated management and development of fisheries, aquaculture and marine fisheries’ as well as the construction of physical infrastructures such as ports, roads, railways, rail links through a model of public- private partnership along the Orissa coast to the Cuddalore- Nagapattinam Petroleum Corridor in Tamil Nadu. Derived from an all encompassing model of coastal infrastructure development proposed under the much touted framework of Sagarmala and the Blue Revolution, this project brought together financiers, transnational corporations, policy consultants and conservationists to promote a plan for accelerating the growth of the export economy as well as the sustainable use of resources. What is striking about these projects is the modernist vision they promote and the optimism embedded in them about capital flows, connectedness, poverty alleviation, maritime connectivity and technological advancement, while masking the reproduction of inequalities, the far reaching ecological transformations, dispossession and pauperization they create( Harvey & Knox, 2015; Anand, 2018). The story also bears a striking resemblance to global port building and coastal redevelopment ventures, where capital, investment, finances, labour and technology are mobilised across jurisdictions and spaces to offer technical and engineering solutions to problems that ail the coastal economy ( Khaleli, 2020).
The webinar brings together a set of scholars who are part of the EqUIP fisher coast project based at Madras Institute of Development Studies ( MIDS) and Institut Francais de Pondicherry (IFP) as well as activists to reflect on the nature of development envisioned under the Blue economy along the Coromandel Coast. It engages with the large scale acquisition of coastal lands and the push for the monetisation of collectively governed commons, the widening cleavages between land and sea, the capitalisation of resources, the violation of coastal regulation laws, the long term effects on coastal livelihoods and the legal struggles undertaken by coastal workers, trade unions and rights activists. It also examines rhetorical claims made by public and private players about guaranteeing economic growth with resource and heritage conservation as well as the struggles around the destruction of communitarian governance structures and the superimposition of rule by experts. Finally the webinar also seeks to foster a greater dialogue between the academic and activist interventions that would serve as a resource for ongoing fisher struggles on the coast.
EquiP project (Madras Institute of Development Studies/ French institute Pondicherry) and R.Sridhar.
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