Full Description
The uprooting and displacement of people has long been among the hardships associated with development and modernity. Indeed, the circulation of commodities, currency, and labor in modern society necessitates both social and spatial mobility. However, the displacement and resettlement of millions of people each year by large-scale infrastructural projects raises serious questions about the democratic character of the development process.
Although designed to spur economic growth, many of these projects leave local people struggling against serious impoverishment and gross violations of human rights. Working from a political-ecological perspective, Anthony Oliver-Smith offers the first book to document the fight against involuntary displacement and resettlement being waged by people and communities around the world.
Increasingly over the last twenty-five years, the voices of people at the grass roots are being heard. People from many societies and cultures are taking action against development-forced displacement and resettlement (DFDR) and articulating alternatives. Taking the promise of democracy seriously, they are fighting not only for their place in the world, but also for their place at the negotiating table, where decisions affecting their well-being are made.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter One. Disasters of Development: Development Forced Displacement and Resettlement
Chapter Two. Understanding Resistance: Combating the Violence of Development
Chapter Three. The People in the Way
Chapter Four. Contested Landscapes: Development, Ecological Upheaval, and Resistance
Chapter Five. Challenging the Economics of Displacement: Evaluating Risks and Compensating Losses
Chapter Six. The Lake of Memory: Cultural Discourses of Resistance
Chapter Seven. Confronting Goliath: The Politics of DFDR Resistance
Chapter Eight. The Risks and Results of Resistance to Resettlement
Bibliography
Index
