ABSTRACT
We examine ecological dispossession in “the Anthropocene” through the rise of anticorruption movements in urban India that in surprising ways have politicized (wet)land-grabbing as a mechanism of privatization and wealth creation. While we recognize that corruption continues to be a fraught ethico-political terrain in the post-colony with emancipatory and regressive tendencies, potential exists for radical egalitarian movements. Placed within the context of a rapidly growing city and a geopolitically assertive India, the chapter considers head-on urban socionature under “advanced capitalism,” from collusion between the super-wealthy and the state—to hopes for egalitarian spaces.
