ABSTRACT
At a time when the promise of development is increasingly in question, with dwindling social gains, the vision of modernity is losing its certainty. Financial meltdown, arctic thaw, imploding states, diminishing resources, global migrations of economic and environmental refugees, and the resurgence of slavery are a few of the dramatic changes that are now part of the social and natural landscape. By and large, these represent particularly visible and broad reversals in the narrative of progress. What about the everyday and smaller-scale casualties of progress? Th is is the subject of this volume.
