Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Social Effects of Enclave Economic Zones: The Case of India

博士生Preeti Sampat（纽约城市大学）在大卫哈维博士的指导下，将对印度2005年《经济特区法》的起源、颁布和执行进行人类学研究。留出或飞地经济区提供了重要的国家和国际投资机会，现在是整个发展中世界普遍存在的经济增长工具。 虽然《印度经济特区法》在印度议会获得所有政党的完全一致通过，但经济特区很快成为开发商、政府、公民和农民团体之间对土地和资源的破坏性争夺的主题。因此，这项研究非常重要，因为它将有助于了解这种无核武器区在地方一级的后果，并有助于了解如何改进无核武器区的实施，使所有有关方面都能受益。她将采用民族志方法的组合，包括深入访谈，生活史访谈，参与者观察和档案研究。她将探讨各种关键行为者，如开发商，政治家，官僚，公民和农民组织对经济特区的主张。她将特别关注2005年经济特区法的起源和实施，围绕经济特区法和土地和资源权的新兴法理学，以及经济特区的实施和两个网站对它们的抵制。在过去二十年里，它大大增加了国际经济参与。该研究还将进一步分析当代社会运动及其对民主和公民身份的影响，以及出口导向型飞地经济作为复杂的地方和全球进程的中心地点。资助这项研究也支持研究生的教育。

Doctoral student Preeti Sampat (City University of New York), under the guidance of Dr. David Harvey, will undertake anthropological research on the genesis, enactment and implementation of the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) Act 2005 in India. Set-aside or enclave economic zones, which provide signficant national and international investment opportunities, are now a ubiquitous tool of economic growth throughout the developing world. While the Indian SEZ Act was approved by the Indian parliament with complete consensus among all political parties, SEZs soon became the subject of disruptive contestation over land and resources between developers, the government, and citizen and peasant groups. Thus this research is important for the contribution it will make to understanding local-level consequences of such zones and possible ways that their implementation may be improved to better benefit all concerned.Sampat will conduct research in multiple sites in India. She will employ a combination of ethnographic methods including in-depth interviews, life histories interviews, participant observation, and archival research. She will explore claims around SEZs made by various key actors, such as developers, politicians, bureaucrats, and citizen and peasant organizations. She will focus in particular on the genesis and implementation of the SEZ Act 2005, the emergent jurisprudence around the SEZ law and the right to land and resources, and the implementation of SEZs and resistance to them in two sites.Findings from this research will contribute to theorizing the changing political economy of land and resources, law-making processes, and democratic practices in the context of a formerly closed economy that has increased its international economic engagement significantly over the past two decades. The study also will further analyses of contemporary social movements and their implications for democracy and citizenship, and of export-oriented enclave economies as central loci of complex local and global processes. Funding this research also supports the education of a graduate student.