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Book SynopsisThis timely Handbook demonstrates that global linkages, flows and circulations merit a more central place in theorization about development. Calling for a mobilities turn, it challenges the sedentarist assumptions which still underlie much policy making and planning for the future.
Expert contributors analyze development from a mobilities perspective, exploring how globalization connects distant people and places, so that what happens in one place has direct bearing on another. Chapters provide an overview of the global trends related to the flows of people and capital over the past decade, and offer insights into the consequences of developmental practices and policies that unfold on the ground. Drawing on specific case studies from Africa, Asia and Latin America, this Handbook considers how, in many localities, livelihood opportunities are ever more shaped by positionality, and the ways in which people are attached to and participate in translocal and transnational networks.
Providing a bottom-up analysis of the implications of globalization for translocal development, this Handbook will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of development studies, human geography, and sustainability and environmental science. Its use of global case studies will also be useful for practitioners and policy makers who desire a better understanding of the developmental impact of policies and investments.
Trade Review'This exceptionally rich and innovative text engages issues of translocal development and mobility through detailed, often empirically-based case studies. Its chapters expand on how meta-trend such as digitalization and environmental degradation affect development, and advocate for a mobilities perspective in analysing and addressing resulting issues. ''Local'' perspectives are highlighted to give guidance to policymakers on how to avoid the pitfalls and unintended consequences of previous approaches. It offers us a new way to think through the major issues of our time.' -- Pádraig Carmody, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
'Globalizing capitalism, originally imagined by global policymakers as diffusing development from North to South and enabling the latter to catch-up, has a much more complex, networked spatiality triggering persistently uneven outcomes. This important collection interrogates this complexity and its implications. Trans-local development interrogates how global networks of capital, commodities, logistics and migrants, unevenly connecting the world, come to earth: differentially shaping local landscapes and conditions of possibility for progress towards the good life, while also being shaped by local agency and initiative. Unraveling the implications for specific communities across the post-colony, these essays illuminate how contemporary globalization leapfrogs across space in ways that advantage certain localities and positionalities at the expense of many others. Readers will see the development implications of globalizing capitalism in new and transformative ways.' -- Eric Sheppard, University of California, Los Angeles, US
'Combining new empirical research with novel conceptualizations, the Handbook of Translocal Development and Global Mobilitie
explores the complex and changing ways in which global flows are restructuring livelihood possibilities. While recognizing the potential for peoples' agency, the authors draw attention to the increasing constraints on local development, and thus the challenges that new capital and human flows present for securing inclusion and sustainability. This book is a sympathetic but serious challenge to livelihoods research, as well as to arguments that global value chains offer pathways to human development.' -- Anthony Bebbington, Clark University, US
Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook of Translocal Development and Global Mobilities 1 Guus van Westen, Maggi Leung, Kei Otsuki and Annelies Zoomers PART I TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN MIGRATORY LANDSCAPES 2 Moving far away to stay: translocal livelihoods, labour migration corridors and mobility in rural Nicaragua 13 Nanneke Winters, Griet Steel and Carlos Sosa 3 Environmentally related migration in the digital age: the case of Bangladesh 27 Ingrid Boas 4 Development against migration: investments, partnerships and counter-tactics in the West African–European migration industry 42 Joris Schapendonk PART II TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPES OF VALUE CHAIN DEVELOPMENT AND AGRIBUSINESS 5 Beyond the value chain: local impacts of ‘global’ inclusive agribusiness investments – examples from Ghana 58 Guus van Westen 6 Land-based investments and the inevitability of increased farmer–Fulani pastoralist conflicts in Northern Ghana 76 Sebastiaan Soeters, Ruben Weesie and Annelies Zoomers 7 Global flows of investments in agriculture and irrigation-related technologies in sub-Saharan Africa 92 Janwillem Liebrand, Wouter Beekman, Chris de Bont and Gert Jan Veldwisch 8 Land investment flows and translocal development chains of ‘impairing destruction’ 110 Alberto Alonso-Fradejas PART III TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPES OF NATURE CONSERVATION AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION 9 Global investment flows in land restoration and nature conservation 131 Marja Spierenburg 10 Involuntary resettlement projects as a frontier of sustainable translocal development 147 Kei Otsuki PART IV TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPES OF LARGE-SCALE MINING 11 The mining sector in sub-Saharan Africa: flows of capital and people in large-scale mining and artisanal and small-scale mining 162 Chris Huggins 12 Corporate and migrant investment in a gold-mining development corridor: the case of Suriname 179 Marjo de Theije 13 Civil society’s positionality in new development chains: insights from the land and mining sectors in Tanzania 191 Joanny Bélair and Thabit Jacob PART V TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPES OF NEW CITY DEVELOPMENT AND URBAN INFRASTRUCTURES 14 New master-planned cities in Africa: translocal flows ‘touching ground’? 206 Femke van Noorloos 15 Urban infrastructure and displacement: two sides of the sustainability coin 218 Murtah Shannon 16 Conclusions 232 Kei Otsuki, Guus van Westen and Annelies Zoomers Index
