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Development's displacements : ecologies, economies, and cultures at risk / edited by Peter Vandergeest, Pablo Idahosa, and Pablo S. Bose.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic development projects--Social aspects--Case studies.
- Economic development projects.
- Economic development projects--Environmental aspects--Case studies.
- Internally displaced persons--Case studies.
- Internally displaced persons.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver : UBC Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- As multilateral agencies, social movements, and state authorities worldwide struggle to cope with the effects of large-scale development projects, such as dam building, mining, oil extraction, forest plantations, and nature conservation, the problem of displacement remains unresolved. The crisis of "development refugees" -- those forced to relocate not by wars or political conflicts but rather because of development policies, programs, and projects � is becoming increasingly prevalent across the globe. While existing studies on development-induced displacement have focused on issues such as resettlement and compensation for those displaced, this volume seeks to address displacement as a broad and multilayered phenomenon. A series of illustrative case studies drawn from around the globe provide causal accounts of why and how displacement occurs, what its effects on communities, ecosystems, and economies look like, and the normative or ethical positions held by key actors involved. Contributors offer economic, political, and cultural analyses, as well as extensive ethnographic field research, to present a picture of displacement that illustrates the depth and the breadth of the issue.
- Contents:
- Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1: Displacement, Multinationals, and the State; Part 2: Displacement and Neoliberalism; Part 3: Conservation and Displacement; Conclusion; Contributors; Index; 1 Who Defines Displacement? The Operation of the World Bank Involuntary Resettlement Policy in a Large Mining Project; 2 Gendered Implications: Development-Induced Displacement in Sudan; 3 Uprooting Communities and Reconfiguring Rural Landscapes: Industrial Tree Plantations and Displacement in Sarawak, Malaysia, and Eastern Thailand
- 4 Enforcement and/or Empowerment? Different Displacements Induced by Neoliberal Water Policies in Thailand5 Displacements in Neoliberal Land Reforms: Producing Tenure (In)Securities in Laos and Thailand; 6 Contested Territories: Development, Displacement, and Social Movements in Colombia; 7 Dams, Development, and Displacement: The Narmada Valley Development Projects; 8 Upon Whose Terms? The Displacement of Afro-Descendent Communities in the Creation of Costa Rica's National Parks; 9 Entanglements: Campesino and Indigenous Tenure Insecurities on the Honduran North Coast; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H
- IJ; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612741357
- 9781282741355
- 1282741357
- 9780774855426
- 0774855428
- OCLC:
- 923445295
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