Against colonization and rural dispossession : local resistance in South and East Asia, the Pacific and Africa /: local resistance in South and East Asia, the Pacific and 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
• Publisher Details: London, UK : Zed Books Ltd
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 303.4; Economic development -- Developing countries; Globalization; Anti-imperialist movements; Development studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General; Anti-imperialist movements; Economic development; Globalization; Developing countries; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783609451; 1783609451; 9781783609468; 9781783609475; 1783609478
• Related ISBNs: 178360946X; 1783609443; 1783609435; 1783609478; 9781783609444; 9781783609437
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 29, 2017).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.