Dislocation and Resettlement in Development : From Third World to the World of the Third Book

Contents: 1. Debates on dislocation, compensation and resettlement: what does our approach contribute?. 2.  Development and dislocation: why one cannot be addressed without the other?. 3. From ‘compensation’ to resettlement need’ : the reformist managerial approach. 4. De familiarising the economy and development. 5. A critique of received theories of dislocation, compensation and resettlement. 6. Western Marxism and its theory of primitive accumulation: limits and limitations. 7. Primitive accumulation world of the third Marxian perspective on dislocation. 8. Two case studies of  primitive accumulation in India: special economic zone and Plachimada. 9. From resistance to resettlement right: confronting the ‘subjects of development’ and policy paradigms.

"Challenging the more conventional approaches to dislocation and resettlement that are the usual focus of discussion on the topic, this book offers a unique theory of dislocation in the form of primitive accumulation."