Development's Displacement

by Vandergeest, Peter; Idahosa, Pablo; Bose, Pablo S.

• ISBN13: 9780774812061
• ISBN10: 0774812060
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-08-30
• Publisher: Univ of British Columbia Pr

Summary

As multilateral agencies, social movements, and state authorities worldwide struggle to cope with the effects of large-scale development projects, such as dam building, mining, oil extraction, forest plantations, and nature conservation, the problem of displacement remains unresolved. The crisis of "development refugees" - those forced to relocate not by wars or political conflicts but rather because of development policies, programs, and projects - is becoming increasingly prevalent across the globe.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 3
Displacement, Multinationals, and the State
Who Defines Displacement? The Operation of the World Bank Involuntary Resettlement Policy in a Large Mining Project	p. 33
Gendered Implications: Development-Induced Displacement in Sudan	p. 61
Uprooting Communities and Reconfiguring Rural Landscapes: Industrial Tree Plantations and Displacement in Sarawak, Malaysia, and Eastern Thailand	p. 82
Displacement and Neoliberalism
Enforcement and/or Empowerment? Different Displacements Induced by Neoliberal Water Policies in Thailand	p. 111
Displacements in Neoliberal Land Reforms: Producing Tenure (In)Securities in Laos and Thailand	p. 136
Contested Territories: Development, Displacement, and Social Movements in Colombia	p. 155
Dams, Development, and Displacement: The Narmada Valley Development Projects	p. 187
Conservation and Displacement
Upon Whose Terms? The Displacement of Afro-Descendent Communities in the Creation of Costa Rica's National Parks	p. 209
Entanglements: Campesino and Indigenous Tenure Insecurities on the Honduran North Coast	p. 229
Conclusion	p. 253
Contributors	p. 266
Index	p. 269
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