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Many unresolved questions plague the emotive issue of population displacement caused by development projects. A focused analysis of the processes of resettlement and rehabilitation (R&R)—treated as the key issue in most debates over the politics of development and displacement—is of critical importance today. The struggle for all involved in R&R is finding a balance between the imperatives of development and the rights and needs of the displaced. In the face of an increasingly mobile population and the seemingly unstoppable forces of industrial and infrastructural growth across the developing world, the need for a democratically negotiated, professionally managed and overtly ethical R&R policy and practice is being felt all the more. Such a policy can be developed and perfected on the basis of constant inputs from the ground-level experiences of actual implementation. This, however, necessitates a bracketed, multi-disciplinary and balanced research in the field of R&R policy and practice, one that would lead to informed criticism, analyses and theorization related to development-induced population displacement.
This volume is a significant contribution in this direction. Edited by two well-known scholars of development-induced involuntary displacement in India, it brings together fourteen well researched and relevant essays by academics, researchers and practitioners with extensive first-hand knowledge and experience of the R&R processes in India. These essays provide valuable empirical and theoretical insights into R&R practices and experiences from a variety of developmental fields, including road projects, dams, mining, forests, and farmlands. Situating the discourse on R&R in the overall debate about the politics of development, this volume attempts not only to establish the study of R&R as a separate field of inquiry, but also to influence policy implementation in this field.
With its extensive coverage and detailed analysis of the key fields of inquiry in R&R, this volume will be an indispensable resource for students, researchers and scholars in the field of development studies, refugee studies and policy studies. It will be a useful guide to policy-makers, NGOs and journalists working in the field of development-induced displacement in India. The volume will also be a valuable reference for students and scholars of economics, sociology, demography and political science.Contents.ISBN--- 9788131700921
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Pages : 320
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