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Discordant Development

Name: Discordant Development
Brand: PLUTO PRESS
SKU: 9780745331508
Price: 86.7 EUR
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Global Capitalism and the Struggle for Connection in Bangladesh

Autor: Katy Gardner

Jazyk:

Väzba: Pevná

Vydavateľ: PLUTO PRESS

Dostupnosť: Čaká sa dotlač

Termín neznámy

86.70 €

What happens when a vast multinational mining company operates a gas plant situated close to four de...

Informácie o knihe

Autor

Katy Gardner

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydalo

2012

Stránok

280

EAN

9780745331508

ISBN

0745331505

Enbook ID

04671733

Vydavateľ

PLUTO PRESS

Hmotnosť

451

Rozmery

135 x 215 x 23

Kompletný popis

What happens when a vast multinational mining company operates a gas plant situated close to four densely populated villages in rural Bangladesh? How does its presence contribute to local processes of 'development'? And what do corporate claims of 'community engagement' involve? Drawing from author Katy Gardner's longstanding relationship with the area, Discordant Development reveals the complex and contradictory ways that local people attempt to connect to, and are disconnected by, foreign capital. Everyone has a story to tell: whether of dispossession and scarcity, the success of Corporate Social Responsibility, or imperialist exploitation and corruption. Yet as Gardner argues, what really matters in the struggles over resources is which of these stories are heard, and the power of those who tell them. Based around the discordant narratives of dispossessed land owners, urban activists, mining officials and the rural landless, Discordant Development touches on some of the most urgent economic and political questions of our time, including resource ownership and scarcity, and the impact of foreign investment and industrialisation on global development.