Rethinking Displacement: Asia Pacific Perspectives

Herausgeber: Ganguly-Scrase, Ruchira; Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the multitude of interconnected factors causing displacements that compel people to move within their homelands or traverse various borders. It brings together historical and contemporary accounts and critical examinations of the displaced and articulates the commonalities in their lived experiences. It accomplishes the task of charting a new path in displacement studies by offering a number of studies from interdisciplinary and diverse methodological approaches.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781138272743
• ISBN-10: 1138272744
• Artikelnr.: 57052438

Autorenporträt

Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase is Professor in International Development, The Australian Catholic University, Australia and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt is Fellow, Resource Management in Asia Pacific program, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Neoliberal Globalisation and Displacement: States Displacing the
Poor and the Marginal; Chapter 1: Dispossession, Placelessness, Home and
Belonging: An Outline of a Research Agenda; Chapter 2: Neoliberal
Development, Port Reform and Displacement: The Case of Kolkata and Haldia,
West Bengal, India 1; Chapter 3: Youth on the Neoliberal Margins:
Ethnography of Tourism-led Displacement in Kerala, South India; Chapter 4:
Neoliberal Development and Displacement: Women's Experiences of Flight and
Settlement in South Asia; Chapter 5: Aftermath of Dams and Displacement in
India's Narmada River Valley: Linking Compensation Policies with
Experiences of Resettlement; Chapter 6: Globalization and Occupational
Displacement: Indian Artisans in the Global Economy; Part 2: Politics and
Coercive Displacement: States Displacing Minorities and Indigenous Peoples;
Chapter 7: The Land Issue on Banggi Island, Sabah, Malaysia:
Deagrarianisation and Exclusion of the Bonggi; Chapter 8: Movement by
Coercion: The Displacement of Indigenous Children in Australia; Chapter 9:
Margin, Minorities, and a Political Economy of Displacement: The Chittagong
Hill Tracts of Bangladesh 1; Part 3: Placeless Identities: Non-State Places
and Floating Peoples; Chapter 10: Home-making and Regrounding: Lives of
Bangladeshi Migrants on the Damodar Charlands of Lower Bengal, India;
Chapter 11: Re-imagining 'Refugeehood': Reflections on Hmong Identity(ies)
in the Diaspora; Chapter 12: Globalised Cartographies of Being: Literature,
Refugees, and the Australian Nation; Chapter 13: Dispossession, Human
Security, and Undocumented Migration: Narrative Accounts of Afghani and Sri
Lankan Tamil Asylum Seekers