Longer mobile tenure and closer resource proximity both reduce official belonging.

Evidence

In the national and transnational resource wars, a double paradox asserts itself. First, in what one might call the resource law of inverse longevity, the longer a people have dwelled in an area in a condition of mobile adaptation, the less they officially belong there, their tenure rendered precarious by a Lockeian logic of what counts as belonging. Their residence, if acknowledged at all, can be dismissed as extralegal. Second, in what one might call the resource law of inverse proximity, the closer people live to the resources being “developed,” the less likely they are to benefit from that “development,” be it water from megadams or oil pumped from beneath their lands. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 462

Categorization

• DEFINE: The two named ‘resource laws’ (inverse longevity, inverse proximity) give the reader testable mechanisms for arguing the invisibility thesis.
• XREF: Inverse proximity pays off the global extractive-distance argument from ch8 (capital moves, people stay) and the ousted-stationary-displaced idea; also the reader’s land/place thread.