Against colonization and rural dispossession : local resistance in South and East Asia, the Pacific and Africa / edited by Dip Kapoor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kapoor, Dip, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--Developing countries.

Economic development.

Globalization.

Anti-imperialist movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 pages)

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Other Title:

Local resistance in South and East Asia, the Pacific and Africa

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, 2017.

Summary:

Against Colonization and Rural Dispossession argues that many economic initiatives undertaken in the global South in the name of development are actually a form of continued colonization of these regions. Instead of creating stronger economic communities, this development has actually exacerbated poverty and led to the exploitation of labor across the global South. As the contributors show, this process has been met with varied forms of rural resistance by local movements of displaced farm workers, landless peasants, and indigenous peoples. Combining local case studies with Marxist and anti-colonial analysis, the essays collected here demonstrate the ways in which these local struggles have attempted to resist colonization and dispossession. The result is a vital addition to the fields of critical development studies, political-sociology, agrarian studies, and the anthropology of resistance, particularly in overlooked areas of Asia-Pacific and Africa regions.

Contents:

Waponhahki anti-colonial resistance in North American colonial contexts: some preliminary notes on the coloniality of meta-dispossession / Rebecca Sockbeson

Sovereignty politics in Samoa: fa'asamoa, fa'amatai, and resistance to colonial capital and dispossession of customary land and place / Naomi Gordon

Adivasi, Dalit, and non-tribal forest dweller (ADNTFD) resistance to bauxite mining in Niyamgiri: displacing capital and state-corporate mining activism in India / Dip Kapoor

Our crops speak: small and landless peasant resistance to agro-extractive dispossession in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia / Hasriadi Masalam

Dispossession and neoliberal disaster reconstruction: activist NGO and fisher resistance in Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu / Raja Swamy and Prema Revathi

Lumad anti-mining activism in the Philippines / Robyn Magalit Rodrguez

Coal power and the Sundarbans in Bangladesh: subaltern resistance and convergent crises / Souryan Mookerjea and Manoj Misra

Resisting accumulation by dispossession: organization and mobilization by the rural poor in contemporary South Africa / Lalitha Naidoo, Gilton Klerck, and Kirk Helliker

Food sovereignty through ecofeminism: re-commoning as resistance to agribusiness dispossession in Kenya / Leigh Brownhill, Wahu Kaara, and Terisa Turner

Guided by the Yomo spirit: resistance to accumulation by dispossession of the Songor salt lagoon in Ada, Ghana / Jonathan Langdon and Kofi Larweh

Contesting dispossession: land rights activism in Gambella, Ethiopia, and Pujehun, Sierra Leone / Rachel Ibreck

Local resistance to large-scale agricultural land acquisitions in the Benishangul-Gumuz region, Ethiopia / Tsegaye Moreda

All that glitters: neoliberal violence, small-scale mining, and gold extraction in northern Tanzania / Zahra Moloo

'Oloibirinization', collective identity, and the future of multilocal resistance in the Niger Delta / Temitope B. Oriola.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350218307

1350218308

9781783609468

178360946X

OCLC:

995774741