Abstract

India’s current ‘pro-business’ development regime has been both challenged by depictions of malevolent corporations oppressing helpless village communities and legitimised by depictions of socially responsible corporations ‘developing’ grateful backward communities. To overcome these contradictory narratives, which fail to account for the intricate relationships between villagers and corporate actors, the article analyses how these narratives are constructed in interaction with local conflicts surrounding industrial activity. Guided by a framework based on social systems theory, a detailed study of two cement plants located in Chhattisgarh shows how this interaction operates through multiple discursive layers, which vary in terms of their degree of specification/generalisation and concreteness/abstraction.

抽象的

印度当前的“有利于商业”的发展体制既受到描绘恶意企业压迫无助的乡村社区的挑战，又受到描绘出对社会负责任的公司“发展”感恩的落后社区的描述的合法性。为了克服这些矛盾的叙述，而这些叙述无法解释村民与公司参与者之间的错综复杂的关系，本文分析了这些叙述是如何与围绕工业活动的局部冲突相互作用而构建的。在基于社会系统理论的框架的指导下，对位于恰蒂斯加尔邦的两家水泥厂的详细研究表明，这种相互作用是如何通过多个话语层进行的，这些话语层的规格/概括性和具体性/抽象性各不相同。