Dislocation and Resettlement in Development

Anjan Chakrabarti is Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Calcutta, India. His publications most recently include (as co-author) Transition and Development in India (also published by Routledge). Anup Kumar Dhar is Associate Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore, India. As co-authors, they recently published Global Capitalism and World of the Third.

• 1. Debates on Dislocation, Compensation and Resettlement: What Does Our Approach Contribute? 2. Development and Dislocation: Why one Cannot be Addressed Without the Other? 3. From ‘Compensation’ to ‘Resettlement Need’: The Reformist-Managerial Approach 4. De-Familiarising the Economy and Development 5. A Critique of Received Theories of Dislocation, Compensation and Resettlement 6. Western Marxism and its Theory of Primitive Accumulation: Limits and Limitations 7. Primitive Accumulation – World of the Third Marxian Perspective on Dislocation 8. Two Case Studies of Primitive Accumulation in India: Special Economic Zone and Plachimada 9. From Resistance to Resettlement Right: Confronting the ‘Subjects of Development’ and Policy Paradigms