Development-Induced Displacement and Resettlement

Irge Satiroglu is an independent social impact assessment and resettlement specialist. She joined the University of Oxford as a visiting research fellow in 2011-2012. Narae Choi is a Social Development Specialist at the World Bank, currently supporting the Indonesian government’s national program of community empowerment.

Foreword Introduction Part 1: Challenges to the assumptions of DIDR 1. Looking for a 'successful' resettlement: Is Tahtali Dam the right address? 2. Reinvigorating a critical discussion on 'development' in development-induced displacement and resettlement: A study of non-displacement impacts 3. Risk information sharing: An empirical study on risk perception and depressive symptoms among those displaced by the Three Gorges Project 4. "They are not family, they just live with us!" Exploring the practical, social and ethical implications of defining the household Part 2: Ethics of DIDR 5. Spatial- and complexity-based perspectives on the ethics of development-induced displacement and resettlement 6. The centrality of empowerment in DIDR: An ethical perspective 7. Resettlement projects as spaces of exception Part 3: International and national policies 8. Is there a global safeguard for development displacement? 9. Protection against development-induced displacement in international law 10. Destroying a way of life: The Forest Rights Act of India and land dispossession of indigenous peoples 11. Patterns in arbitrariness: Resettlement experiences of the unrecognized urban poor in Chennai Part 4: Voice and power of people 12. Forging new avenues for rights-claiming: Community responses to development-induced displacement in resettlement in rural Myanmar 13. Speaking through the silence: The role of literature in DIDR activism 14. Activists in urban forced resettlement Conclusion