Dislocation and Resettlement in Development: From Third World to the World of the Third by Anjan Chakrabarti & Anup Kumar Dhar

Author:Anjan Chakrabarti & Anup Kumar Dhar [Chakrabarti, Anjan & Dhar, Anup Kumar]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Ethnic Studies, Social Science, Political Science, Regional Studies, General
ISBN: 9781135255930
Google: aNCOAgAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 17512943
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-09-01T00:00:00+00:00

… the mere process of addition did not create fulfilment; that mere size of acquisition did not produce happiness; that greater velocity of movement did not necessarily constitute progress, and that change could only have meaning in relation to some clear ideal of completeness.

Tagore (2006: 36–37)

This subject embraces development of a different kind that is grounded on an ethico-political attitude emanating from her overdetermined and contradictory space of world of the third. What then about the counter-hegemonic subject who refuses to be drawn into the logic of development and wants to have nothing to do with it? What about the logic of development that refuses to concede a place for such a subject and would rather see her resistance through the lens of a top-down approach? Is it then surprising to find the hegemonic dub the subject as ‘evil’? For such counter-hegemonic subjects, dislocation is not about compensation or resettlement, but instead concerns the development logic that in turn is interrogated with a possibility of its rejection. This means that any proposed theory of resettlement must internalize the moment of critical interrogation and rejection within its formulation. Kanbur–Cernea’s approach with their third world-ist moorings attempts to evacuate any prospect of opposition to development logic by trying to keep at bay the possible ‘irruption’ of the evil; instead, their method enables the hegemonic to control and manage world of the third through third world-ism – where third world-ism is the reduction of a horizontality and a relation of difference (the horizontality of the camp of global capital and the camp of world of the third, with world of third as the difference of the camp of global capital) to a verticality (the verticality of capital and pre-capital, with third world as pre-capital). Their approach can thus be seen as part of the hegemonic effort to foreclose world of the third by disallowing world of the third subjectivity ever to hit the discursive terrain. While need-based discourse may very well be liberating in the hegemonic account, the buzzwords the eavesdropper hears and sees in the corridors and texts of development institutions such as the World Bank are security, control and social harmony, and the unending fear and anxiety of the marching footsteps of Gandhi’s world of the third.

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