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Defying Displacement: Grassroots Resistance and the Critique of Development
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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Defying Displacement: Grassroots Resistance and the Critique of Development
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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Defying Displacement: Grassroots Resistance and the Critique of Development

Defying Displacement: Grassroots Resistance and the Critique of Development

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

Defying Displacement: Grassroots Resistance and the Critique of Development

by Anthony Oliver-Smith

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780292728905
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 08/01/2010
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 303
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Anthony Oliver-Smith is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Florida. He held the Munich Re Foundation Chair of Social Vulnerability at the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security 2007-2008. He has done anthropological research and consultation on issues relating to involuntary resettlement, as well as the impacts of natural and technological disasters, in Peru, Honduras, India, Brazil, Jamaica, Mexico, Japan, and the United States since the 1970s.

Table of 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
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