IDEAS (Office of Interdisciplinary Studies) at JGU extends an invitation to a talk as part of the M.Sc. Development Practice Webinar series, titled: Who Accumulates? Capital, Community, and the Politics of Dispossession in Northeast India. 

Event Details:
Date: 17 May 2025, Saturday
Time: 11 AM – 12 PM
Webinar link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ymQBiu3cTSWNZwJeND3e4Q#/registration

About the Speaker:
Dr. Roluahpuia is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee. Previously, he held fellow positions at CSDS, New Delhi, Harvard University, United States (US), and at IIT-Guwahati. His research interest pertains to issues concerning tribes, development, and borderland studies. 

About the talk:
The talk examines how dispossession due to the construction of a hydropower project in Manipur, northeast India, unleashes a politics of accumulation. In most cases, marginalized populations such as tribes, among others, are viewed as ‘victims’ of development. By focusing on the politics of accumulation, it is shown how sections of the population within tribal communities, particularly the local elites, took advantage of the construction of the dam to profit from land compensation to transforming the dam site into new sites of accumulation, resulting in the concentration of land and wealth.

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