Leaders justify dam displacement through selective self-sacrifice rhetoric.

Evidence

The second strategy (often used in tandem with direct violence) involves a rhetorical appeal to selective self-sacrifice: your loss, your suffering is for the greater good—a heroic offering on the pyre of national development. (Here is Nehru, in 1948, exhorting the communities about to be dispossessed by the Hirakud Dam: “If you suffer, you should suffer in the interest of the country.”) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 454

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Connects to article on sacrifice: Nehru’s ‘suffer for the interest of the country’ extends sacrificial framing to state-led development, showing how willing-victim ideology justifies megaproject displacement.
• XREF: connects to: The rhetoric of shared sacrifice operates ideologically without requiring belief — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 726

Broader Connections

• The rhetoric of shared sacrifice operates ideologically without requiring belief #expands (0.80) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 726