#8251. ‘Our wetland is our mother, you cannot take her away from us’: Reconstructing the political space of reclaiming a coastal wetland in Sompeta, Andhra Pradesh, India

October 2026publication date
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Sociology and Political Science;
Geography, Planning and Development;
Ecology;
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law;
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Abstract:
The article is a case study of state-mediated wetland grabbing and dispossession and the people’s struggle to reclaim a coastal wetland. It examines the nature and mechanisms of dispossession as well as the resistance to wetland grabbing. The study shows that the apparatuses used by the state to capture the wetland, unleash a coercive process of land dispossession from above. It also uncovers a composite dispossessory politics, which is a convergence of the physical loss of wetland used as commons, loss of livelihoods and exclusion based on socio-cultural identities of gender, caste and class. Resistance from below counteracted both the coercive process and the dimensions of dispossession.
Keywords:
coercive process from above; composite dispossessory politics; ecological sustainability; resistance from below; Wetland grabbing

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