Displaced: the human cost of development and resettlement

A collection of oral histories that reveal the loss of cultural continuity, identity, shifts in family responsibilities, gender roles and fractured relationships between generations that are just some of the challenges people face asthey attempt to rebuild lives and communities. INDICE: PART I .Moving People: States, Displacement and Resettlement .The Individual Voice: the Challenges and Benefits of Listening to Personal Narratives .PART II .'We had a set way of life. All that has been disturbed': TarbelaDam, Pakistan .'I have lost status in my community': Conservation and Agricultural Production in Kenya .'The people's place became the animals' place': Resettlement Policies and Conservation in Botswana and Namibia .'Our fields have gone, our lifestyle has changed': Coalmining in India .'The wisdom of living in this place will be lost': Mohale Dam, Lesotho, Before Resettlement .'I do not have the cleverness for here': Mohale Dam, Lesotho, After Displacement .PARTIII .Conclusion

• ISBN: 978-0-230-11785-3
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 250
• Fecha Publicación: 11/05/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido