Dislocation and Resettlement in Development: From Third World to the World of the Third

by Anjan Chakrabarti and Anup Kumar Dhar

Book Overview

Challenging the more conventional approaches to dislocation and resettlement that are the usual focus of discussion on the topic, this book offers a unique theory of dislocation in the form of primitive accumulation.

Interrogating the 'reformist-managerial' and 'radical-movementist' approaches, it historicizes and politicizes the event of dislocation as a moment to usher in capitalism through the medium of development. Such a framework...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415502071
• ISBN13: 9780415502078
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"