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Social Science Developing Countries

Development's Displacements

Economies, Ecologies, and Cultures at Risk

edited by Peter Vandergeest, Pablo Idahosa & Pablo S. Bose

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Jul 2007
Category
Developing Countries
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774812061
    Publish Date
    Jul 2007
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774812054
    Publish Date
    Nov 2006
    List Price
    $95.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774859752
    Publish Date
    Oct 2010
    List Price
    $99.00

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Description

As multilateral agencies, social movements, and state authorities worldwide struggle to cope with the effects of large-scale development projects, the problem of displacement remains unresolved. This volume seeks to address displacement as a broad and multilayered phenomenon. A series of illustrative case studies drawn from around the globe provide 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. Contributors offer economic, political, and cultural analyses, as well as extensive ethnographic field research, to present a picture of displacement that illustrates the depth and the breadth of the issue.

About the authors

Contributor Notes

Peter Vandergeest is an associate professor of sociology and director of the York Centre for Asian Research at York University. Pablo Idahosa is an associate professor in social sciences and coordinator of the African Studies Program at York University. Pablo S. Bose is a Henderson and SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Vermont and a research associate with the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University.