Michael Levien is a doctoral student in sociology at the University of California-Berkeley. His dissertation examines ‘accumulation by dispossession’ through Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in India, the peculiar agrarian transformations they are generating, and the counter-movements that have arisen to resist them. The project combines ethnography and surveys of villages whose lands were expropriated for an SEZ in Rajasthan, interviews with government officials and capitalists across India, and government documents obtained through the Right to Information Act. The larger aim of this project is to theoretically reconstruct ‘accumulation by dispossession’ to make it usable for studying variations in the political economy of dispossession over time and space, and to theorize the distinctiveness of political movements organized around dispossession rather than exploitation.