Defying Displacement | Grassroots Resistance and the Critique of Development

Anthony Oliver-Smith

ISBN 10: 0292728905 / ISBN 13: 9780292728905

Editore: University of Texas Press, 2010

Defying Displacement | Grassroots Resistance and the Critique of Development | Anthony Oliver-Smith | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2010 | University of Texas Press | EAN 9780292728905 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. Codice articolo 106897007

Riassunto:

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.

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Titolo: Defying Displacement | Grassroots Resistance...
Casa editrice: University of Texas Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2010
Legatura: Taschenbuch
Condizione: Neu