Against Colonization and Rural Dispossession: Local Resistance in South Ea [Hardcover]

Against Colonizationand Rural Dispossessionargues that many economic initiatives undertaken in the global South in the name of development are actually a form of continued colonization of these regions. Instead of creating stronger economic communities, this development has actually exacerbated poverty and led to the exploitation of labor across the global South.
 
As the contributors show, this process has been met with varied forms of rural resistance by local movements of displaced farm workers, landless peasants, and indigenous peoples. Combining local case studies with Marxist and anti-colonial analysis, the essays collected here demonstrate the ways in which these local struggles have attempted to resist colonization and dispossession. The result is a vital addition to the fields of critical development studies, political-sociology, agrarian studies, and the anthropology of resistance, particularly in overlooked areas of Asia-Pacific and Africa.
 

DipKapooris professor of international education at the University of Alberta, Canada, and a research associate at the Center for Research and Development Solidarity, an Adivasi-Dalit people's organization in India. His previous books includeNGOizationandBeyond Colonialism, Development and Globalization, both also published by Zed Books.
 
 

About the contributors
1 Local resistance to colonization and rural dispossession in South and East Asia, the Pacific, and Africa
Dip Kapoor

2 Waponahki anti-colonial resistance in North American colonial contexts: some preliminary notes on the coloniality of meta-dispossession
Rebecca Sockbeson

Part I: South and East Asia and the Pacific Region
3 Sovereignty politics in Samoa: fa’asamoa, fa’amatai, and resistance to colonial capital and dispossession of customary land and place
Naomi Gordon