How Intersecting State Paternalism, Low Aspirations and Relative Satisfaction Preserve the Inertia of Rural Livelihoods in Odisha
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F25%3A10502762" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/25:10502762 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=eS7b3Rod--" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=eS7b3Rod--</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/joac.70016" target="_blank" >10.1111/joac.70016</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
How Intersecting State Paternalism, Low Aspirations and Relative Satisfaction Preserve the Inertia of Rural Livelihoods in Odisha
Original language description
Rural Odisha, located along the eastern coast of India, has experienced slow economic growth over the past decade. This article employs a perspective rooted in the political economy of rural livelihoods to explore how and why this stagnation manifests among farmers. The case study focuses on farming households in a socioecologically homogeneous area with an upgraded irrigation scheme in an interior area in the northeastern side of the state. It uses longitudinal data from structured interviews in 2010/11 and 2022/23 with the same 175 households, supplemented by 64 semistructured interviews with local actors including farmers, local functionaries, government officers, and private actors. Our framework analyses the interplay of livelihood dynamics, aspiration formation, political economic drivers, ecological contexts and local innovation systems. The findings reveal a trajectory of structural change with limited livelihood dynamism, particularly in agriculture and crop diversification, though more changes were observed in nonfarm livelihoods. Limited agricultural dynamism was driven by modest aspirations and reinforced by paternalistic governance that undermines farmer agency. The study enhances our longitudinal understanding of agrarian change and livelihood dynamics with intergenerational differences.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50701 - Cultural and economic geography
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF19_073%2F0016935" target="_blank" >EF19_073/0016935: Grant schemes at Charles University</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Agrarian Change
ISSN
1471-0358
e-ISSN
1471-0366
Volume of the periodical
25
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
e70016
UT code for WoS article
001479335900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105003842838