Description
Book SynopsisSeeks to address displacement as a broader and more multi-layered phenomenon. This work provides causal accounts of why and how displacement occurs, what its effects on communities, ecosystems, and economies look like, and the normative or ethical positions held by key actors involved.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
1. Introduction / Peter Vandergeest, Pablo Idahosa, and Pablo S.Bose
Part 1: Displacement, Multinationals, and theState
2. Who Defines Displacement? The Operation of the World BankInvoluntary Resettlement Policy in a Large Mining Project / DavidSzablowski
3. Gendered Implications: Development-Induced Displacement in Sudan/ Amani El-Jack
4. Uprooting Communities and Reconfiguring Rural Landscapes:Industrial Tree Plantations and Displacement in Sarawak, Malaysia, andEastern Thailand / Keith Barney
Part 2: Displacement and Neoliberalism
5. Enforcement and/or Empowerment? Different Displacements Inducedby Neoliberal Water Policies in Thailand / Michelle Kooy
6. Displacements in Neoliberal Land Reforms: Producing Tenure(In)Securities in Laos and Thailand / Peter Vandergeest
7. Contested Territories: Development, Displacement, and SocialMovements in Colombia / Sheila Gruner
8. Dams, Development, and Displacement: The Narmada ValleyDevelopment Projects / Pablo S. Bose
Part 3: Conservation and Displacement
9. Upon Whose terms? The Displacement of Afro-Descendent Communitiesin the Creation of Costa Rica's National Parks / ColetteMurray
10. Entanglements: Campesino and Indigenous Tenure Insecurities onthe Honduran North Coast / Sharlene Mollett
11. Conclusion / Pablo Idahosa, Peter Vandergeest, and Pablo S.Bose
Contributors
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