Handbook of Translocal Development and Global Mobilities by Annelies Zoomers (En

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This timely Handbook demonstrates that global linkages, flows and circulations merit a more central place in theorization about development. Calling for a mobilities turn, it challenges the sedentarist assumptions which still underlie much policy making and planning for the future.

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This timely Handbook demonstrates that global linkages, flows and circulations merit a more central place in theorization about development. Calling for a mobilities turn, it challenges the sedentarist assumptions which still underlie much policy making and planning for the future.Expert contributors analyze development from a mobilities perspective, exploring how globalization connects distant people and places, so that what happens in one place has direct bearing on another. Chapters provide an overview of the global trends related to the flows of people and capital over the past decade, and offer insights into the consequences of developmental practices and policies that unfold on the ground. Drawing on specific case studies from Africa, Asia and Latin America, this Handbook considers how, in many localities, livelihood opportunities are ever more shaped by positionality, and the ways in which people are attached to and participate in translocal and transnational networks.Providing a bottom-up analysis of the implications of globalization for translocal development, this Handbook will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of development studies, human geography, and sustainability and environmental science. Its use of global case studies will also be useful for practitioners and policy makers who desire a better understanding of the developmental impact of policies and investments.

Author Biography

Edited by Annelies Zoomers, formerly Professor of International Development Studies, Utrecht University, Maggi Leung, Professor, Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies, University of Amsterdam, Kei Otsuki and Guus Van Westen, Associate Professors, Department of Human Geography and Planning, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Table of Contents

Contents:1 Introduction to the Handbook of Translocal Development andGlobal Mobilities 1Guus van Westen, Maggi Leung, Kei Otsuki and Annelies ZoomersPART I TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN MIGRATORYLANDSCAPES2 Moving far away to stay: translocal livelihoods, labourmigration corridors and mobility in rural Nicaragua 13Nanneke Winters, Griet Steel and Carlos Sosa3 Environmentally related migration in the digital age: the caseof Bangladesh 27Ingrid Boas4 Development against migration: investments, partnerships andcounter-tactics in the West African–European migration industry 42Joris SchapendonkPART II TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPESOF VALUE CHAIN DEVELOPMENT AND AGRIBUSINESS5 Beyond the value chain: local impacts of 'global' inclusiveagribusiness investments – examples from Ghana 58Guus van Westen6 Land-based investments and the inevitability of increasedfarmer–Fulani pastoralist conflicts in Northern Ghana 76Sebastiaan Soeters, Ruben Weesie and Annelies Zoomers7 Global flows of investments in agriculture andirrigation-related technologies in sub-Saharan Africa 92Janwillem Liebrand, Wouter Beekman, Chris de Bont and Gert JanVeldwisch8 Land investment flows and translocal development chains of'impairing destruction' 110Alberto Alonso-FradejasPART III TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPESOF NATURE CONSERVATION AND WILDLIFECONSERVATION9 Global investment flows in land restoration and nature conservation 131Marja Spierenburg10 Involuntary resettlement projects as a frontier of sustainabletranslocal development 147Kei OtsukiPART IV TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPESOF LARGE-SCALE MINING11 The mining sector in sub-Saharan Africa: flows of capital andpeople in large-scale mining and artisanal and small-scale mining 162Chris Huggins12 Corporate and migrant investment in a gold-miningdevelopment corridor: the case of Suriname 179Marjo de Theije13 Civil society's positionality in new development chains:insights from the land and mining sectors in Tanzania 191Joanny Bélair and Thabit JacobPART V TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPESOF NEW CITY DEVELOPMENT AND URBANINFRASTRUCTURES14 New master-planned cities in Africa: translocal flows'touching ground'? 206Femke van Noorloos15 Urban infrastructure and displacement: two sides of thesustainability coin 218Murtah Shannon16 Conclusions 232Kei Otsuki, Guus van Westen and Annelies ZoomersIndex

Review

'This exceptionally rich and innovative text engages issues of translocal development and mobility through detailed, often empirically-based case studies. Its chapters expand on how meta-trend such as digitalization and environmental degradation affect development, and advocate for a mobilities perspective in analysing and addressing resulting issues. ''Local'' perspectives are highlighted to give guidance to policymakers on how to avoid the pitfalls and unintended consequences of previous approaches. It offers us a new way to think through the major issues of our time.' -- Pádraig Carmody, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland'Globalizing capitalism, originally imagined by global policymakers as diffusing development from North to South and enabling the latter to catch-up, has a much more complex, networked spatiality triggering persistently uneven outcomes. This important collection interrogates this complexity and its implications. Trans-local development interrogates how global networks of capital, commodities, logistics and migrants, unevenly connecting the world, come to earth: differentially shaping local landscapes and conditions of possibility for progress towards the good life, while also being shaped by local agency and initiative. Unraveling the implications for specific communities across the post-colony, these essays illuminate how contemporary globalization leapfrogs across space in ways that advantage certain localities and positionalities at the expense of many others. Readers will see the development implications of globalizing capitalism in new and transformative ways.' -- Eric Sheppard, University of California, Los Angeles, US'Combining new empirical research with novel conceptualizations, the Handbook of Translocal Development and Global Mobilitie explores the complex and changing ways in which global flows are restructuring livelihood possibilities. While recognizing the potential for peoples' agency, the authors draw attention to the increasing constraints on local development, and thus the challenges that new capital and human flows present for securing inclusion and sustainability. This book is a sympathetic but serious challenge to livelihoods research, as well as to arguments that global value chains offer pathways to human development.' -- Anthony Bebbington, Clark University, US

Review Quote

'Combining new empirical research with novel conceptualizations, the Handbook of Translocal Development and Global Mobilities explores the complex and changing ways in which global flows are restructuring livelihood possibilities. While recognizing the potential for peoples' agency, the authors draw attention to the increasing constraints on local development, and thus the challenges that new capital and human flows present for securing inclusion and sustainability. This book is a sympathetic but serious challenge to livelihoods research, as well as to arguments that global value chains offer pathways to human development.'

Details ISBN1788117417 Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1788117417 ISBN-13 9781788117418 Format Hardcover Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Cheltenham Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 264 Publication Date 2021-06-08 AU Release Date 2021-06-08 NZ Release Date 2021-06-08 UK Release Date 2021-06-08 Author Guus Van Westen Edited by Guus Van Westen DEWEY 303.482 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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