Displaced The Human Cost of Development and Resettlement [Paperback]

A collection of oral histories that reveal the loss of cultural continuity, identity, shifts in family responsibilities, gender roles and fractured relationships between generations that are just some of the challenges people face as they attempt to rebuild lives and communities.Moving People: States, Displacement, and Resettlement The Individual Voice: The Challenges and Benefits of Listening to Personal Narratives 'We had a set way of life. All that has been disturbed': Tarbela Dam, Pakistan 'I have lost status in my community': Conservation and Agricultural Production in Kenya 'The people's place became the animals' place': Resettlement Policies and Conservation in Botswana and Namibia 'Our fields have gone, our lifestyle has changed': Coal Mining in India 'The wisdom of living in this place will be lost': Mohale Dam, Lesotho, before Resettlement 'I do not have the cleverness for here': Mohale Dam, Lesotho, after Displacement Conclusion

*Winner of the Cecil B. Currey Book Award from the Association of Third World Studies*

'This is a very timely and extremely important book which puts local people first in addressing the costs of international development across two continents: Africa and Asia. The immediacy of displacement and the resettlement experience is the framework with which the authors and those interviewed reveal the tragedy of dispossession as well as the spirit of resilience and recovery. For several decades policy makers, practitioners, and academics alike have called for a refocus on 'people' in development. This book does just that by giving voice to those affected by development-induced displacement. I predict that this will become a major work in the field of development studies.' Dawn Chatty, professor in Anthropology and Forced Migration, Refugee Studies Centre, Department of International Development, University of Oxford

'This is an exciting, outstanding, and welcome addition to the literature on dislc8