Against Colonization and Rural Dispossession: Local Resistance in South & East Asia, the Pacific & Africa - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1783609435 ISBN 13: 9781783609437

Verlag: Zed Books, 2017

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A provocative study of the ways in which peasant
and indigenous movements across Africa and Asia are resisting global
capitalism.

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Dip Kapoor is a professor in international development education at the University of Alberta, Canada. He is also a board member at the Center for Research and Development Solidarity (CRDS), an organisation in Odisha, India which advocates for peasant and Adivasi-Dalit communities. His previous books include NGOization (Zed 2013) as well as the edited collections Beyond Colonialism, Development and Globalization (Zed 2015) and Against Colonization and Rural Dispossession (Zed 2017).

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Against Colonization and Rural Dispossession

Local Resistance in South and East Asia, the Pacific and Africa

By Dip Kapoor

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Contents

About the contributors, 
1 Local resistance to colonization and rural dispossession in South and East Asia, the Pacific, and Africa Dip Kapoor, 
2 Waponahki anti-colonial resistance in North American colonial contexts: some preliminary notes on the coloniality of meta-dispossession Rebecca Sockbeson, 
PART I: SOUTH AND EAST ASIA AND THE PACIFIC REGION, 
3 Sovereignty politics in Samoa: fa'asamoa, fa'amatai, and resistance to colonial capital and dispossession of customary land and place Naomi Gordon, 
4 Adivasi, Dalit, and non-tribal forest dweller (ADNTFD) resistance to bauxite mining in Niyamgiri: displacing capital and state-corporate mining activism in India Dip Kapoor, 
5 Our crops speak: small and landless peasant resistance to agro-extractive dispossession in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia Hasriadi Masalam, 
6 Dispossession and neoliberal disaster reconstruction: activist NGO and fisher resistance in Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu Raja Swamy and Prema Revathi, 
7 Lumad anti-mining activism in the Philippines Robyn Magalit Rodriguez, 
8 Coal power and the Sundarbans in Bangladesh: subaltern resistance and convergent crises Sourayan Mookerjea and Manoj Misra, 
PART II: AFRICAN REGION, 
9 Resisting accumulation by dispossession: organization and mobilization by the rural poor in contemporary South Africa Lalitha Naidoo, Gilton Klerck, and Kirk Helliker, 
10 Food sovereignty through ecofeminism: re-commoning as resistance to agribusiness dispossession in Kenya Leigh Brownhill, Wahu Kaara, and Terisa Turner, 
11 Guided by the Yomo spirit: resistance to accumulation by dispossession of the Songor salt lagoon in Ada, Ghana Jonathan Langdon and Kofi Larweh, 
12 Contesting dispossession: land rights activism in Gambella, Ethiopia, and Pujehun, Sierra Leone Rachel Ibreck, 
13 Local resistance to large-scale agricultural land acquisitions in the Benishangul-Gumuz region, Ethiopia Tsegaye Moreda, 
14 All that glitters: neoliberal violence, small-scale mining, and gold extraction in northern Tanzania Zahra Moloo, 
15 'Oloibirinization', collective identity, and the future of multilocal resistance in the Niger Delta Temitope B. Oriola, 
Index, 

CHAPTER 1

LOCAL RESISTANCE TO COLONIZATION AND RURAL DISPOSSESSION IN SOUTH AND EAST ASIA, THE PACIFIC, AND AFRICA

Dip Kapoor

Contemporary contestation and resistance by indigenous peoples, forest dwellers, small or landless peasants, pastoralists, fishers, marginal castes and ethnicities, and precariously positioned farm labor addressing colonial capitalist development displacement and dispossession in parts of the Asia-Pacific and Africa, however politically (un)spectacular, is common but seldom acknowledged. This perpetuates the untenable notion, both politically and theoretically, of an uncontested compliance or resignation, or a willing acceptance of loss of territory and customary land, if not a sense of place, history, and sociocultural presence.

Euro-American experiences of development and progress realized through liberal conceptions of land as private property characteristic of capitalist social relations and modes of production are, in the alleged absence of contestation equated with this relative silence, positively affirmed and subsequently prescribed as the universally applicable political-economic destination. The role of the repeated violence (including genocidal) of multiple dispossessions and forced (or bribed and manipulated) occupations and political-economic restructuring continually enforcing five centuries of Western colonial capitalism is obscured in such a politics, which normalizes colonization as a necessary social force of constant and (un)civil compulsion in matters pertaining to the lives of the colonial-dispossessed, while denying any explicit recognition of resistance and contestation to such violence by those being dispossessed.

These Euro-colonial political and theoretical projects have always been resisted and challenged on material grounds by the 'wretched of the earth' (Fanon 1963), or those being compelled, manipulated, or invited to commit social and political-economic suicide in the face of a supposed inevitability regarding their necessary demise. Anti-colonial resistance has taken on various forms in different regions and scales over the course of five centuries of Western colonialism, including: (1) the defense of, and by, pre-existing states of their polities against Western expansion; (2) popular and often violent nativist uprisings and reactions to Western interference and imposition of institutions and customs via militant or missionary Christianity; (3) slave revolts (e.g. African and Creole) against plantation owners and masters; (4) issue-specific ameliorative uprisings exposing a colonial injustice in the interests of reform/concessions; and (5) organized movements and violence against colonial regimes for national independence (Benjamin and Hidalgo 2007: 59).

Engaged academics, activists, and journalists in Against Colonization and Dispossession: Local Resistance in South and East Asia, the Pacific and Africa attempt to register contemporary and predominantly organized and open democratic rural resistances, struggles, or movements addressing: primitive accumulation (Marx1867/1990); ongoing accumulation by dispossession (ABD) (Harvey 2003); and the exploitation of 'unfree' labor (landless and marginal peasants/exploited farm wage labor and fishers) (Brass2011) as continued colonial theft integral to a coloniality of power exercised through the development project and a globalizing capitalism (Fanon 1963; Nkrumah 1965/1971; Quijano 2000;Rodney 1982) in the Euro-colonial political geographies of South and East Asia, the Pacific, and Africa.

Colonialism is understood as material and ideological racialized dispossession, domination, and exploitation that persists beyond the national achievement of official independence of the so-called Third World or the Darker Nations (Prashad 2008) in the twentieth century, to include continuing and new forms of neocolonialism (Nkrumah 1965/1971) on an international or global scale, contrary to the suggestion of postcolonial ruptures in the post-national independence period. Speaking to the situations of the indigenous,Huanani-Kay Trask (1993/1999: 102–103, emphasis added) expresses this as follows:

I have defined neocolonialism as the experience of oppression at a stage that is nominally identified as independent or autonomous. I use nominally to underscore the reality that independence from colonial power is legal but not economic [e.g. continued Anglo-American legal and land tenure systems in places as diverse as the Philippines, Fiji and parts of Africa]. ... it is the ideological position that all is well; in other words, that decolonization has occurred. Therefore, problems and conflicts are post-colonial and the fault of the allegedly independent peoples. Nothing could be more inaccurate.

... we are surrounded by other, more powerful nations that desperately want our lands and resources and for whom we pose an irritating problem. This is just as true for the Indians of the Americas as it is for the tribal people of India and the aborigines of the Pacific. This economic reality is also a political reality for most if...

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• Verlag: Zed Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1783609435
• ISBN 13: 9781783609437
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368
• Herausgeber: Kapoor Dip
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