Against colonization and rural dispossession : local resistance in South & East Asia, the Pacific & Africa /: local resistance in South & East Asia, the Pacific & Africa. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Dip Kapoor.
• Editors: Kapoor, Dip
• Contents: 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 Region3.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 Region9.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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Zed Books
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 338.90091724; Economic development -- Developing countries; Globalization; Anti-imperialist movements
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783609451; 9781783609468; 9781783609475
• Related ISBNs: 9781783609444; 9781783609437
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