Rohit Mujumdar
Rohit Mujumdar is a doctoral student at the School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia (UBC) and a PhD Scholar at Liu Institute for Global Issues, UBC. His ongoing doctoral research, against the backdrop of accelerated rural-urban transition in contemporary India, explores how a politics of citizenship shaped by migratory flows and incremental planning influences the politics of urbanization at Mumbai’s periphery. He has earlier taught at the K. R. V. Institute for Architecture, Mumbai, and has co-founded Collective Research Initiatives Trust, which is an extra-curricular space for critical investigations on urbanism in Mumbai. Email: mujumdar@interchange.ubc.ca |
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Research on Land-grabbing:
The Politics of Special Economic Zones in Maharashtra, India: Institutional Politics and the Framing of Resistance/Alternatives
How have social movements responded to processes of establishing large Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in Maharashtra, India, which seek to implement India’s economic reform through a politics of stealth? Drawing from theory within the disciplines of planning and social movement studies, my research attempts to address this question and comprehend the evolution of state-society dynamics in implementing Maharashtra’s SEZ Policy and two large SEZ projects located at the periphery of Mumbai and Nasik. It explores the relationship between existing social ecologies and how they shape institutional politics of response to land grab, the factors that shape collaborations and fractures in the framing of collective action and their outcomes in different locations, and interpreting the alternatives posed in the mobilizations against SEZs.
