ABSTRACT
Development projects across the Global South impact millions of individuals annually through forced resettlements. Scholars have long acknowledged resettlement as primarily an impoverishing experience, one that includes intangible losses like a sense of place attachment, as much as it does physical ones. Once resettled, residents try to transform the post-resettlement site into a place they can call home. Interestingly, this need not be a physical transformation. In this chapter, I analyze text from 75 semi-structured interviews to describe how shared memories of home eased the transition to a new location for a resettled village in Mozambique.
