Defying Displacement Grassroots Resistance and the Critique of Development 1st Edition by Anthony Oliver Smith ISBN 0292792867 9780292792869

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ISBN 10: 0292792867 

ISBN 13: 9780292792869

Author: Anthony Oliver Smith

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.

Table of contents: 

Disasters of Development

Development Forced Displacement and Resettlement

Understanding Resistance

Combating the Violence of Development

The People in the Way

Contested Landscapes

Development, Ecological Upheaval, and Resistance

Challenging the Economics of Displacement

Evaluating Risks and Compensating Losses

The Lake of Memory

Cultural Discourses of Resistance

Confronting Goliath

The Politics of DFDR Resistance

The Risks and Results of Resistance to Resettlement

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