Against Colonization and Rural Dispossession: Local Resistance in South & East Asia, the Pacific & Africa

ISBN-13: 9781783609444 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 368 str.

D. Kapoor

Opis

Against Colonization and Rural Dispossession argues that many economic initiatives undertaken in the global South in the name of development are actually a form of continued colonization of these regions. Instead of creating stronger economic communities, this development has actually exacerbated poverty and led to the exploitation of labor across the global South.

As the contributors show, this process has been met with varied forms of rural resistance by local movements of displaced farm workers, landless peasants, and indigenous peoples. Combining local case studies with Marxist and anti-colonial analysis, the essays collected here demonstrate the ways in which these local struggles have attempted to resist colonization and dispossession. The result is a vital addition to the fields of critical development studies, political-sociology, agrarian studies, and the anthropology of resistance, particularly in overlooked areas of Asia-Pacific and Africa.

Spis treści

1. Local Resistance to Colonization and Rural Dispossession in South and East Asia, the Pacific and Africa - Dip Kapoor 2. Waponahki Anti-Colonial Resistance in North American Colonial Contexts: Some Preliminary Notes on the Coloniality of Meta-Dispossession - Rebecca Sockbeson Part I: South and East Asia and the Pacific Region 3. Sovereignty Politics in Samoa: Fa’asamoa, Fa’amatai and Resistance to Colonial Capital and Dispossession of Customary Land and Place - Naomi Gordon 4. Adivasi, Dalit and Non-Tribal Forest-Dweller (ADNTFD) Resistance to Bauxite Mining in Niyamgiri: Displacing Capital and State-Corporate Mining Activism in India - Dip Kapoor 5. Our Crops Speak: Small and Landless Peasant Resistance to Agro-Extractive Dispossession in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia - Hasriadi Masalam 6. Dispossession and Neoliberal Disaster Reconstruction: Activist NGO and Fisher Resistance in Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu - Raja Swamy and Prema Revathi 7. Lumad Anti-Mining Activism in the Philippines - Robyn Magalit Rodriguez 8. Coal Power and the Sundarbans in Bangladesh: Subaltern Resistance and Convergent Crises - Sourayan Mookerjea and Manoj Misra Part II: African Region 9. Resisting Accumulation by Dispossession: Organization and Mobilization by the Rural Poor in Contemporary South Africa - Lalitha Naidoo, Gilton Klerck and Kirk Helliker 10. Food Sovereignty through Ecofeminism: Re-commoning as Resistance to Agri-Business Dispossession in Kenya - Leigh Brownhill, Wahu Kaara and Terisa Turner 11. Guided by the Yomo Spirit: Resistance to Accumulation by Dispossession of the Songor Salt Lagoon in Ada, Ghana - Jonathan Langdon and Kofi Larweh 12. Contesting Dispossession: Land Rights Activism in Gambella, Ethiopia and Pujehun, Sierra Leone - Rachel Ibreck 13. Local Resistance to Large-Scale Agricultural Land Acquisitions in the Benishangul-Gumuz Region, Ethiopia - Tsegaye Moreda 14. All that Glitters: Neoliberal Violence, Small-Scale Mining and Gold Extraction in Northern Tanzania - Zahra Moloo 15. ‘Oloibirinization’, Collective Identity and the Future of Multi-Local Resistance in the Niger Delta - Temitope B. Oriola