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Defying Displacement : Grassroots Resistance and the Critique of Development / Anthony Oliver-Smith.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (303 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780292792869
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 325 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One Disasters of Development -- Chapter Two Understanding Resistance -- Chapter Three The People in the Way -- Chapter Four Contested Landscapes -- Chapter Five Challenging the Economics of Displacement -- Chapter Six The Lake of Memory -- Chapter Seven Confronting Goliath -- Chapter Eight The Risks and Results of Resistance to Resettlement -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One Disasters of Development -- Chapter Two Understanding Resistance -- Chapter Three The People in the Way -- Chapter Four Contested Landscapes -- Chapter Five Challenging the Economics of Displacement -- Chapter Six The Lake of Memory -- Chapter Seven Confronting Goliath -- Chapter Eight The Risks and Results of Resistance to Resettlement -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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