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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454489803321

Titolo

Development's displacements [[electronic resource] ] : ecologies, economies, and cultures at risk / / edited by Peter Vandergeest, Pablo Idahosa, and Pablo S. Bose

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, : UBC Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-74135-7

9786612741357

0-7748-5542-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

VandergeestPeter <1955->

BosePablo S. <1972->

IdahosaPablo <1954->

Disciplina

306.3

Soggetti

Economic development projects - Social aspects

Economic development projects - Environmental aspects

Internally displaced persons

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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