Dislocation and Resettlement in Development

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.

Interrogating the ‘reformist-managerial’ and ‘radical-movementist’ approaches, it historicizes and politicizes the event of dislocation as a moment to usher in capitalism through the medium of development. Such a framework offers alternative avenues to rethinking dislocation and resettlement, and indeed the very idea of development. Arguing that dislocation should not be seen as a necessary step towards achieving progress - as it is claimed in the development discourse - the authors show that dislocation emerges as a socio-political constituent of constructing capitalism.

This book will be of interest to academics working on Development Studies, especially on issues relating to the political economy of development and globalization.

Anjan Chakrabarti is Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Calcutta, India. His publications most recently include (as co-author) Transition and Development in India (also published by Routledge). Anup Kumar Dhar is Associate Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore, India. As co-authors, they recently published Global Capitalism and World of the Third.