ABSTRACT Visible in the extant and deep depredations that rural India is experiencing are forms of malevolence. As agendas to promote nature conservation and agricultural productivity gain ground, these iconize the tiger and the tube well and mask the extent to which both are sources of counter-conservation and counter-productivity. Generating cruel distortions in the life-worlds of rural, marginalized communities, these iconic interventions trigger a disassembling of customary practices and knowledge, a resignification of symbolic complexes, and adversarial human-nature relations. Even as the tiger and the tube well are promoted by government agencies and agri-businesses, they render already vulnerable citizens, small and marginal cultivators, Adivasis and children, into sacrificial subjects, denying them citizenship rights and the conditions for life. The resulting malevolence threatens the ecological sustainability, economic viability, citizens’ safety, and overall well-being of India’s marginalized majority.

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老虎和管井：印度农村的恶意

摘要在印度农村正在经历的现存和深刻的掠夺中可以看出恶意的形式。随着促进自然保护和农业生产力的议程取得进展，这些议程很好地将老虎和管子形象化，并掩盖了两者都是反保护和反生产力来源的程度。这些标志性的干预措施在农村、边缘化社区的生活世界中产生了残酷的扭曲，引发了习惯做法和知识的分解、符号复合体的重新定义以及敌对的人与自然关系。即使老虎和管井得到政府机构和农业企业的推广，它们也使本已脆弱的公民、小规模和边缘的耕种者、阿迪瓦西斯和儿童成为牺牲品，剥夺他们的公民权利和生活条件。由此产生的恶意威胁到印度被边缘化的大多数人的生态可持续性、经济可行性、公民安全和整体福祉。