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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813382503321

Autore

Chakrabarti Anjan

Titolo

Dislocation and resettlement in development : from third world to the world of the third / / Anjan Chakrabarti and Anup Kumar Dhar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2009

ISBN

1-135-25594-6

1-282-28364-2

9786612283642

0-203-87362-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in development and society ; ; 21

Altri autori (Persone)

DharAnup Kumar

Disciplina

325

Soggetti

Economic development - Social aspects - Developing countries

Internally displaced persons - Developing countries

Forced migration - Economic aspects - Developing countries

Land settlement - Economic aspects - Developing countries

Developing countries Economic conditions

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

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Debates on dislocation, compensation and resettlement: What does our approach contribute?; 2 Development and dislocation: Why one cannot be addressed without the other?; 3 From compensation' to 'resettlement need': The reformist-managerial approach; 4 De-familiarizing the economy and development; 5 A critique of received theories of dislocation, compensation and resettlement; 6 Western Marxism and its theory of primitive accumulation: Limits and limitations; 7 Primitive accumulation = world of the third Marxian perspective on dislocation

8 Two case studies of primitive accumulation in India: Special Economic Zone and Plachimada9 From resistance to resettlement right: Confronting 'subjects of development' and policy paradigms; Notes; Bibliography; Index of authors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Challenging the more conventional approaches to dislocation and resettlement that are the usual focus of discussion on the topic, this book offers a unique theory of dislocation in the form of primitive



accumulation. Interrogating the 'reformist-managerial' and 'radical-movementist' approaches, it historicizes and politicizes the event of dislocation as a moment to usher in capitalism through the medium of development. Such a framework offers alternative avenues to rethinking dislocation and resettlement, and indeed the very idea of development. Arguing that dislocation should not be