The Pattern of Land-Grabbing Practice in Year of the Weeds Novel by Siddhartha Sarma
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https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1307.13Keywords:
land grabbing, corporate practice, ecocriticism, environmental crisis, Siddhartha Sarma’s novelAbstract
Environmental issues are increasingly worrying, some of which are in the form of deforestation and land degradation caused by the conversion of forest functions into mining. This study describes the practice of forest land-grabbing by the government in corporations with companies to be used for mining. The data source is Year of the Weeds novel by Siddhartha Sarma. Then, it was analyzed using document analysis techniques with the following stages: unitizing, sampling, recording, reducing, inferring, and narrating. The data validation used an ecocritical approach with primary and secondary references in the form of relevant research articles, books, and information in the media. The findings revealed a pattern of land grabbing practices in the form of government-company cooperation; surveying, measuring, and setting stakes; offering compensation and employment; changing the regulation on the function of the area; involvement of the apparatus and violence; land acquisition experts; and the issue of the involvement of radical groups; and arresting residents. Several developing countries, including India, Indonesia, and Brazil, engage in confiscation with the same practice pattern. This pattern of practice, if carried out continuously, will cause environmental crises.
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