Docent

Patrik Oskarsson

Institute: Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences), Uppsala
Research area: Natural resource management, Policy development
Research region: Africa, Asia-Pacific
Open to collaboration with: Media, Other researchers, Practitioners and policy makers

Professional experience

Co-supervisor of PhD
3 year(s) -
Lecturing
10 year(s) -
PhD defence
10 year(s) -

Other experience

Collaboration with civil society organisations
16 year(s) -

Personal institution page

Publications

Industrialising Rural India

Uncategorized
Understanding India’s new political economy: a great transformation?

Commonwealth & Comparative Politics
The shifting sands of land governance in peri-urban Mangaluru, India: fluctuating land as an ‘informality machine’ reinforcing rapid coastal transformations

Contemporary South Asia
India’s new coal geography: Coastal transformations, imported fuel and state-business collaboration in the transition to more fossil fuel energy

Energy Research & Social Science
Governing India’s bauxite mineral expansion: Caught between facilitating investment and mediating social concerns

The Extractive Industries and Society
Development deadlock: aborted industrialization and blocked land restitution in West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh, India

Development Studies Research
Dispossession by Confusion from Mineral-Rich Lands in Central India

South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies
Diverging Discourses on Bauxite Mining in Eastern India: Life-Supporting Hills for Adivasis or National Treasure Chests on Barren Lands?

Society & Natural Resources
Producing ‘So-So’ Infrastructure for National Energy Security at the North Karanpura Coalfields in Eastern India

South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies
Enduring Discourses and Everyday Contestation: Introduction to Special Section on Discourse and Resource Conflict in Extractive Zones of India

South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies
Extracting environmental justice: Countering technical renditions of pollution in India’s coal industry

The Extractive Industries and Society
Landlock: Paralysing Dispute over Minerals on Adivasi Land in India

Uncategorized
India’s resource (inter)nationalism: Overseas mining investments shaped by domestic conditions

The Extractive Industries and Society
From Incremental Dispossession to a Cumulative Land Grab: Understanding Territorial Transformation in India’s North Karanpura Coalfield

Development and Change
An (Urban) Political Ecology approach to Small-Scale Fisheries in the Global South

Geoforum
Land dispossession and everyday politics in rural eastern India

Commonwealth & Comparative Politics
A Hydrologically Fractured State? Nation-Building, the Hirakud Dam and Societal Divisions in Eastern India

South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies
The Politics of Caste in India’s New Land Wars

Journal of Contemporary Asia
Adivasiness as Caste Expression and Land Rights Claim-Making in Central-Eastern India

Journal of Contemporary Asia