Shining Bright

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract Solar energy is often described as being ‘free’, but capturing it implies accessing a terrestrial surface and thus opens thorny questions of land tenure and property rights. This chapter argues that who wins and who loses out of solar power infrastructure relates in large part to whose land is used and how. The chapter explores how Corporate and government land acquisitions often draw on colonial strategies of dispossession that remain at the core of land property regimes within ‘post-colonial’ states. Tools of dispossession have included the imposition of ‘public land’ statuses on community commons; the (re)classification of land used by communities for pasture or fuelwood collection as ‘wastelands’, ‘unoccupied’, ‘unproductive’, or ‘unused’ land; and the fraudulent acquisition of land at bargain prices by middlemen under conditions of duress or misinformation. The chapter focuses on the case of India solar parks, noting that these can not only reproduce land grabbing patterns but also further deepens social inequalities and hardships, including for low-caste women losing access to land and other resources. The chapter concludes with a brief summary of best practices.
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Authors Philippe Le Billon
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Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
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10.1093/oso/9780197873434.003.0012
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197873434.003.0012
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