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

Kapoor, Dip

ISBN 10: 1783609443 / ISBN 13: 9781783609444

Published by Zed Books, 2017

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A provocative study of the ways in which peasant and indigenous movements across Africa and Asia are resisting global capitalism. Editor(s): Kapoor, Dip. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: GTF; GTJ; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 140. . . 2017. hardcover. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Against Colonization and Rural Dispossession: Local Resistance in South and East Asia, the Pacific and Africa
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783609443
• ISBN 13: 9781783609444
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Under the guise of 'development', a globalizing capitalism has continued to cause poverty through dispossession and the exploitation of labour across the Global South. This process has been met with varied forms of rural resistance by local movements of displaced farm workers, small and landless (women) peasants, and indigenous peoples in South and East Asia, the Pacific and Africa, who are resisting the forced appropriation of their land, the exploitation of labour and the destruction of their ecosystems and ways of life.

In this provocative new collection, engaged scholars and activists combine grounded case studies with both Marxist and anti-colonial analyses, suggesting that the developmental project is a continuation of the colonial project. The authors then demonstrate the ways in which these local struggles have attempted to resist colonization and dispossession in the rural belt, thereby contributing essential movement-relevant knowledge on these experiences in the Global South.

A vital addition to the fields of critical development studies, political-sociology, agrarian studies and the anthropology of resistance, this book addresses academics and analysts who have either minimized or overlooked local resistances to colonial capital, especially in the Asia-Pacific and Africa regions.

About the Author

Dip Kapoor is a professor in international development education at the University of Alberta, Canada. He is also a board member at the Center for Research and Development Solidarity (CRDS), an organisation in Odisha, India which advocates for peasant and Adivasi-Dalit communities. His previous books include NGOization (Zed 2013) as well as the edited collections Beyond Colonialism, Development and Globalization (Zed 2015) and Against Colonization and Rural Dispossession (Zed 2017).