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Discordant Development : Global Capitalism and the Struggle for Connection in Bangladesh - Katy Gardner

Discordant Development

Global Capitalism and the Struggle for Connection in Bangladesh

By: Katy Gardner

Paperback | 8 February 2012 | Edition Number 1

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What happened when Chevron, a multinational mining company, opened a gas plant right next to densely populated villages in rural Bangladesh?

This book reveals contradictory ways that local people attempt to connect to, and are disconnected by, foreign capital. Commentators on the situation have different frameworks, whether of dispossession and scarcity, the success of Corporate Social Responsibility, or imperialist exploitation and corruption. Yet as Gardner argues, what really matters in the struggles over resources is which of these stories are heard, and the power of those who tell them.

Based on the narratives of dispossessed land owners, urban activists, mining officials and the rural landless, Discordant Development shows the real picture behind the effect multinational capital has on indigenous communities.

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'Treads a finely judged line, keeping both neoliberal developers and anti-globalisation activists at arm's length in order to describe relations at a human scale, thereby doing for development what anthropology ought' -- David Mosse, Professor of Social Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

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