Social Science Developing Countries
Development's Displacements
Economies, Ecologies, and Cultures at Risk
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2007
- Category
- Developing Countries
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774812061
- Publish Date
- Jul 2007
- List Price
- $34.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774812054
- Publish Date
- Nov 2006
- List Price
- $95.00
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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.