Anthony Oliver-Smith

Books by Anthony Oliver-Smith

Development and Dispossession

The Crisis of Forced Displacement and Resettlement

Resettlement has been so poorly planned, financed, implemented, and administered that these projects end up being development disasters. Because there can be no return to land submerged under a dam-created lake or to a neighborhood buried under a stadium or throughway, the solutions devised to me...
Catastrophe and Culture

The Anthropology of Disaster

At a time of increasing globalization and worldwide vulnerability, the study of disasters has become an important focus for anthropological research-one where the four fields of anthropology are synthesized to address the multidimensionality of the effects to a community's social structures and r...
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