Revisiting, from a Marxist perspective, the World Bank's discourse on Social Funds, we highlight three findings. One, Social Funds gets deployed in the context of a larger Third Worldist discourse of poverty management, which in turn helps deepen the logic of capitalist development. Two,...

Debates on dislocation, compensation and resettlement : what does our approach contribute? -- Development and dislocation : why one cannot be addressed without the other? -- From 'compensation' to 'resettlement need' : the reformist-managerial approach -- De-familiarizing the economy and...

This book offers a unique theory of dislocation in the form of primitive accumulation. It develops a framework that offers alternative avenues to rethinking dislocation and resettlement, and indeed the very idea of development