ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses Euro-American neo/colonial capitalist development dispossession in terms of contemporary rural dispossession and land theft along the North–South axis in the African and Asian regions. Indigenous people, small/landless peasants and indentured labour/migrant workers, forest dwellers, pastoralists/nomads, fishers, and their extended social relations in urban slums continue to be the canaries in the neo/colonial mine of capitalist accumulation. These social groups and emergent classes are dialectically implicated in dis/organised resistance at numerous points of enclosure. Due consideration to key issues pertaining to these rural struggles are considered while suggesting that neo/colonial capitalist development dispossession has always been a contested affair.
