SOCIOLOGY OF DISPLACEMENT: Policies and Practice

The present volume, an assortment of papers written by eminent activists, administrators and scholars on development-induced displacement of indigenous people from their lands and livelihoods, purports to draw out a schema towards the study of displacement as a sociological phenomenon.
Using a Bordieuxian framework to understand the economics of development from a sociological perspective, the book explores the kind of society we are pursuing, and also the types of engagements we wish to enter into with our history where sections of our population need to be cast aside to make way for the rest of us. The conclusion that the present volume draws upon is not how the various social groups respond to displacement but how the Indian society as a whole seems eager to use a developmentalist paradigm despite being fully aware of the inequalities and marginalization that such paradigms create.
The book will serve as a ready guide for activists, scholars, lawyers, corporate houses, development consultants and policy makers.

Contents

1 People’s Concerns in Land Acquisition and Resettlement / K.B. Saxena

2 State-led Development-Induced Dispossession and Displacement / Bhaskar Majumder

3 Impact of Displacement on the Tribes / Walter Fernandes

4 Development-Induced Displacement / Ramesh S. Mangalekar

5 Development through Displacement and Marginalization of Tribal Community / Narendra K. Behera

6 Water for Power: Debating New Trends of Water Development in the Sikkim Himalayas / Vimal Khawas and Deepa Joshi

7 Giving with One Hand, Taking Away with the Other / Patrik Oskarsson

8 Mining and Displacement in South Odisha / M. Gopinath Reddy, Prajna Paramita Mishra and Nagaraju Chikkala

9 Swelling Displacement and Elusive Rehabilitation / K.B. Saxena

10 Whither National Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy for the Displaced? / Ganesha Somayaji and Joanna P. Coelho
11 Displacement and Resettlement in China / Satya Prakash Dash