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

Against Colonizationand 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.
 

DipKapoor is professor of international education at the University of Alberta, Canada, and a research associate at the Center for Research and Development Solidarity, an Adivasi-Dalit people's organization in India. His previous books include NGOization and Beyond Colonialism, Development and Globalization, both also published by Zed Books.