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Title Displaced by development : confronting marginalisation and gender injustice / edited by Lyla Mehta.

Publication Info. New Delhi, IN : Sage, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xliii, 309 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The double bind : a gender analysis of forced displacement and resettlement / Lyla Mehta -- Displacing gender from displacement : a view from the Santal Parganas, Jharkhand / Amit Mitra and Nitya Rao -- Breaking homes, making cities : class and gender in the politics of urban displacement / Amita Baviskar -- Displacement and protecting the rights of children / Enakshi Ganguly Thukral -- Displacement and alienation from common property resources / Walter Fernandes -- A word on eminent domain / Usha Ramanathan -- Second class citizenship : Wanton subversion of relief and rehabilitation / Harsh Mander -- Gender biases in resettlement planning / Hari Mohan Mathur -- An overview of revisions to the World Bank resettlement policy / Dana Clark -- Like a white flag? : the gendered dimensions of the Orissa state policy on resettlement and rehabilitation / Deepa Shankaran -- The Samatha judgement : upholding the rights of Adivasi women / Ravi Rebbapragada and Bhanumathi Kalluri -- 'We will never forgive the government' : a personal testimony / Ramkuwar -- Displacement, gender justice and people's struggles / Chittaroopa Palit.
Summary Applies gender analysis to development induced displacement and resettlement in the Indian context. This book highlights the need to focus specifically on how processes of displacement and resettlement affect social groups differently with regard to axes such as gender, class, caste and tribe.
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Subject Economic development -- India.
Economic development.
India.
Marginality, Social -- India.
Marginality, Social.
Women -- India -- Social conditions.
Women.
Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Added Author Mehta, Lyla.
Other Form: Print version: Displaced by development. New Delhi, IN : Sage, 2009 9788178299006 (DLC) 2008046381 (OCoLC)262887645
ISBN 9788132100959 (electronic book)
8132100956 (electronic book)
1282004646
9781282004641
9788132112440 (ebook)
813211244X (ebook)
9788178299006 (hard back)
8178299003 (hard back)