Contents Executive summary Chapter-1: Introductory Issues
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- Chapter-4: Initiatives taken for developing the area. 4.1 Transition in property regimes
| 3.5 Chapter summary: in this chapter, throughout different sections, the fact that how the notion of underdevelopment has been created among the people, has been presented. Indeed, the information presented in this chapter has gathered from the elder people who had experienced the changes in their locality before and after development initiatives. This chapter illustrates the representational mechanism through which an artificial poorness has been proliferated in this area. Through, materializing the concept of development, the living condition of the people intentionally has been challenged. In addition, the exaggeration of poverty and demarcation between natural and technical production raised a feelings of nefariousness regarding people's own living condition which thrives them to left from their own living condition. Furthermore, through presenting people's ways of life as a problem mentally force them to escape from the present ways of life. To sum up, develop mentalists and western thinking based administrators has created and proliferated the notion of underdevelopment among the people and arise a sense of negligence regarding their present living condition and persuadably convince the people that their living condition is negligible to them. They have fallen in a hole and they must have to escape from this.
Chapter-4: Initiatives taken for developing the area. 4.1 Transition in property regimes: The first and foremost change that has been occurred in the study area in the name of development is the transition in the property regimes. The first pad of Bibiyana Gas Field situated at in the adjacent area of kakura village. This is located in the haor area. Earlier, this area was the center of haor. This area was regarded as public property and everyone was allowed to use this area. Moreover, second and third well of the Gas field are located at the upper haor area. This area was utilized for producing crops and as a grazing field for cattle. Since village adjacent to present gas field, are full of migrants in different parts of the globe. Owing to staying at a place apart from the traditional cultural values and ethos, migrants thinking level and pattern of behavior, also has significantly changed. Due to proliferation of western culture-based practices and ideologies, migrants of the local villages also began to getting individualized and self centered. Moreover, land becomes a sign of prosperity and social status. Most of the local lands and other properties went into the hand of migrants since there were very few people who could compete with them. It seems that local property is has gotten monopolized in the hand of migrants. These migrants stay most of the time outside of the country. These lands owned by migrants usually got distributed among the landless relatives. The land in which at present gas field is located was used for cultivation by local landless. Taking the ownership of the lands from migrants to the gas field makes the landless people in a more vulnerable condition than before. With the deployment of infrastructure and supplementary buildings, property regime of the area has been altered. It seems that there has been followed the Hardin's model as the property regime. Berkes etal (in the environment in anthropology, 2006) has divided property regimes into 4 types. 1. Open Access: it refers the property type where any well-defined property rights is absent. Access is free and open to all. 2. Private property: refers to the situation where an individual or corporation has the rights to exclude others from using the resources. 3. Communal property: in this property regime, resource is held by identifiable community of users who can exclude others and regulate use. 4. State Property: state property means that rights to the property exclusively vested to the government. The area, in which Gas field has been built, was an example of public property regimes. But, it seems that develop mentalists and administrators have followed the altruism of Hardin. In his article, (the tragedy of the commons), he shows that how a property is vulnerable to open access and the only way for protecting this property is the privatization of the property. The area in which natural resource was invented, were first transited into government property and then the government of Bangladesh shifted the authority to the foreign oil company. This foreign oil company, now Chevron, altered the public property regimes into private property where public access is restricted in the place where once people were free to move and at freedom to collect their subsistence as well as grazing their cattle. In the harvesting season, people took the land in lease and used to harvest paddy. But, now there is hanging a signboard with asserting "entry restricted" and the area is surrounded by a well built boundary. With deep observation, if anyone look at the gas field, especially to the first established pad, he/she can understand that here the light of development is glittering. Download 1.22 Mb. Share with your friends:
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