03719nam 2200649Ia 450 991079158190332120230207232621.00-292-79286-710.7560/717633(CKB)2560000000016862(OCoLC)667274137(CaPaEBR)ebrary10412675(SSID)ssj0000415578(PQKBManifestationID)11273626(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000415578(PQKBWorkID)10418101(PQKB)11083826(MiAaPQ)EBC3443499(MdBmJHUP)muse2413(Au-PeEL)EBL3443499(CaPaEBR)ebr10412675(DE-B1597)588249(OCoLC)1286808526(DE-B1597)9780292792869(EXLCZ)99256000000001686220100219d2010 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrDefying displacement[electronic resource] grassroots resistance and the critique of development /Anthony Oliver-Smith1st ed.Austin University of Texas Press20101 online resource (304 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-292-71763-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Disasters of development. Development forced displacement and resettlement -- Understanding resistance. Combating the violence of development -- The people in the way -- Contested landscapes. Development, ecological upheaval, and resistance -- Challenging the economics of displacement. Evaluating risks and compensating losses -- The lake of memory. Cultural discourses of resistance -- Confronting Goliath. The politics of DFDR resistance -- The risks and results of resistance to resettlement.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.Forced migrationLand settlementProtest movementsInfrastructure (Economics)Social aspectsForced migration.Land settlement.Protest movements.Infrastructure (Economics)Social aspects.325Oliver-Smith Anthony1571807MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791581903321Defying displacement3846354UNINA