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Defying Displacement

Grassroots Resistance and the Critique of Development

By Anthony Oliver-Smith

University of Texas Press, 2010

The uprooting and displacement of people has long been among the hardships associated with development and modernity. Indeed, the circulation of commodities, currency, and labor in modern society necessitates both social and spatial mobility. However, the displacement and resettlement of millions of people each year by large-scale infrastructural projects raises serious questions about the democratic character of the development process.

Although designed to spur economic growth, many of these projects leave local people struggling against serious impoverishment and gross violations of human rights. Working from a political-ecological perspective, Anthony Oliver-Smith offers the first book to document the fight against involuntary displacement and resettlement being waged by people and communities around the world.

Increasingly over the last twenty-five years, the voices of people at the grass roots are being heard. People from many societies and cultures are taking action against development-forced displacement and resettlement (DFDR) and articulating alternatives. Taking the promise of democracy seriously, they are fighting not only for their place in the world, but also for their place at the negotiating table, where decisions affecting their well-being are made.

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Demanding Justice and Security

Indigenous Women and Legal Pluralities in Latin America

Sieder, Rachel

Rutgers University Press, 2017

Across Latin America, indigenous women are organizing to challenge racial, gender, and class discrimination through the courts. Collectively, by engaging with various forms of law, they are forging new definitions of what justice and security mean within their own contexts and struggles. They have challenged racism and the exclusion of indigenous people in national reforms, but also have challenged ‘bad customs’ and gender ideologies that exclude women within their own communities.
 
Featuring chapters on Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Mexico, the contributors to Demanding Justice and Security include both leading researchers and community activists. From Kichwa women in Ecuador lobbying for the inclusion of specific clauses in the national constitution that guarantee their rights to equality and protection within indigenous community law, to Me’phaa women from Guerrero, Mexico, battling to secure justice within the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for violations committed in the context of militarizing their home state, this book is a must-have for anyone who wants to understand the struggle of indigenous women in Latin America.
 
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Democracy and Development in Mali

R. James Bingen

Michigan State University Press, 2000

Mali, a country rich with history and culture, but one of the poorest in the world, emerged in the 1990s as one of Africa's most vibrant democracies. Strengthened by bold political and economic reforms at home, Mali has emerged as a leader in African peace keeping efforts. How has such a transition taken place? How have these changes built on Mali's rich heritage? These are the questions that the contributors to this volume have addressed.

During the past twenty-five years, the scholarly research and applied development work of Michigan State University faculty and students in Mali represents the most significant combined, long-term, and continuing contribution of any group of university faculty in the United States or Europe to the study of Malian society, economy, and politics. The applied nature of much of this work has resulted in a significant number of working papers, reports, and conference presentations. This volume represents a coherent and connected set of essays from one American university with a widely known and highly respected role in African development. While the essays identify and review Mali's unique historical and contemporary path to democracy and development, they also contribute to the advancement of theoretical knowledge about African development.

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Democracy in Mexico

Attitudes and Perceptions of Citizens at National and Local Level

Edited by Salvador Marti i Puig, Reynaldo Yunuen Ortega Ortiz, M. Fernanda Somuano Ventura, and Claire Wright

University of London Press, 2014

Democracy in Mexico. Attitudes and perceptions of citizens at national and local level, offers an important contribution to one of the more complex and multifaceted political processes of recent decades in Latin America: Mexico's democratisation at the national and subnational levels. The chapters - on topics including the quality of democracy, political participation and insecurity, amongst others - have been researched and written by a group of academics from the University of Salamanca and El Colegio de México, with the support of the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development (AECID) and the Mexican Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT). Importantly, the volume is based on two surveys carried out throughout Mexico in 2009 and in 2011. The result of this period of collaboration is one of the few existing studies on democratic processes in the Mexican states, which we hope will provoke an important debate within the academic community.
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Development Detoothed

Ugandan Girls and the Making and Unmaking of a Global NGO Campaign

Erin V. Moore

University of Chicago Press, 0

An in-depth examination and critique of girls’ empowerment campaigns in Uganda.

In Kampala, Uganda’s capital and largest city, to “detooth” is to take a man’s money with promises of sex and intimacy.  In this highly engaging book, anthropologist Erin V. Moore uses detoothing as a metaphor to capture the ways that many in Uganda, where unemployment rates are staggering, get access to resources from prosperous international NGOs. 

Based on over a decade of ethnographic research in Uganda, Canada, Ethiopia, Tanzania, the United Kingdom, the United States, and at the United Nations, Development Detoothed focuses on the world’s largest campaign to “empower” adolescent girls in the global south, which aimed to reach hundreds of millions of girls. Moore follows the campaign’s money and messages around the world, through what she calls the “development supply chain,” from NGO headquarters to staff training workshops, UN offices, government agencies, and community-based organizations.

From this uniquely multisited perspective, she explains how billions of aid dollars earmarked for girls ended up in the hands of men who ran these organizations. Rather than merely document ironic outcomes, however, Moore shows how people inventively navigated the development industry’s many injustices, arguing that as young Ugandan women pull development’s “teeth” they effectively challenge broader ideas about power, money, and masculinity.

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