A critique of received theories of dislocation, compensation and resettlement

Drawing upon the overdetermination of class and non-class effects, drawing upon the complexity of subject positions, we deliver in this chapter a methodological and a substantive critique of the ‘reformist-managerial’ approach, encompassing the ‘economics of compensation’ and also Cernea’s Impoverishment Risk and Reconstruction (IRR) approach. In the process, we confront and answer some of the questions raised at the end of Chapters 3 and 4; this in turn moves the discussion on dislocation to a different terrain – the terrain of a Marxian theory of dislocation and resettlement right.