International Social Science Journal

Abstract

In this collection of essays we interrogate the ways in which people lose control or access to property, resources, places of residence, social networks, kin relations, and various material resources, as well as how people negotiate identities and shore themselves up against loss, vulnerability, personal insecurity, and threats to selfhood. Displacement provides the lens the authors employ to question development and the processes by which people and policies, states, and class interests control and alter social relations. They herein draw attention to the hidden consequences of wars and natural disasters, the intervention of new technologies and mega-projects, as well as public policies that alter the meaning of ethnicity, language, and place.