ABSTRACT
This book responds to the need to explore the multitude of interconnected factors causing displacements that compel people to move within their homelands or traverse various borders in the contemporary world that is characterised by extensive and rapid movements of people. It addresses this need by bringing together historical and contemporary accounts and critical examinations of the displaced, by articulating 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 comprising ethnographic and qualitative research and literary interpretations to emphasise that although the forms and conditions of mobility are highly divergent, individual experiences of displacement and placelessness offer a critical challenge to the artificial categorisations of people's movements. Each chapter adds insights into the different configurations of displacement and placement, and offers fresh interpretations of migration and dislocation in today's rapidly changing world. The contributors critically examine a variety of displacement processes and experiences in the context of war, tourism, neoliberal policies of development, and the impact of various agro-forestry policies. They focus on a range of countries, enabling a thorough comparative analysis in terms of scope and range of examples and methods of analysis. This book makes an original contribution to the growing body of literature on displacement, and will appeal to a wide readership including advanced undergraduates, and graduate students and professors in disciplines such as human geography, development studies, sociology and anthropology, regional studies and comparative impact assessment.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|129 pages
Neoliberal Globalisation and Displacement: States Displacing the Poor and the Marginal
chapter Chapter 1|27 pages
Dispossession, Placelessness, Home and Belonging: An Outline of a Research Agenda
chapter Chapter 3|20 pages
Youth on the Neoliberal Margins: Ethnography of Tourism-led Displacement in Kerala, South India
chapter Chapter 4|22 pages
Neoliberal Development and Displacement: Women's Experiences of Flight and Settlement in South Asia
chapter Chapter 6|15 pages
Globalization and Occupational Displacement: Indian Artisans in the Global Economy
part 2|64 pages
Politics and Coercive Displacement: States Displacing Minorities and Indigenous Peoples
chapter Chapter 7|24 pages
The Land Issue on Banggi Island, Sabah, Malaysia: Deagrarianisation and Exclusion of the Bonggi
chapter Chapter 8|16 pages
Movement by Coercion: The Displacement of Indigenous Children in Australia
chapter Chapter 9|22 pages
Margin, Minorities, and a Political Economy of Displacement: The Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh 1
part 3|80 pages
Placeless Identities: Non-State Places and Floating Peoples