Voices of the Governed: towards a theory of the translocal

In this article I want to interrogate the political, economic, and social conditions that enable the extraction of natural and mineral resources from Indigenous and rural communities in Africa, the Americas, and the Asia-Pacific. The end of direct colonialism and the emergence of the development sta...

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Published in:Organization (London, England) Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 323 - 344
Main Author: Banerjee, Subhabrata Bobby
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.05.2011
Sage Publ
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects:
Africa
Americas
Asia Pacific Region
Citizen participation
Civil Society
Coalitions
Colonialism
Decolonization
Democracy
Democratization
Development
Direct democracy
Economic conditions
Economic development
Extraction
Indigene Völker
Indigenous Populations
Indigenous rights
Local power
Markets
Mineral resources
Minerals
Natural resources
Organizational dissolution
Partizipation
Political conditions
Political Economy
Political participation
Political theory
Politischer Widerstand
Postcolonialism
Postkolonialismus
Resistance
Resource exploitation
Rohstoffwirtschaft
Rural areas
Rural communities
Social conditions
Social conditions & trends
Social exclusion
Sovereignty
State
Studies
Translocalism
War
South America
Asia-Pacific region
North America
Africa
translocality
development
indigenous struggles
resource extraction
postcolonialism
resistance
ISSN:1350-5084, 1461-7323
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Summary:In this article I want to interrogate the political, economic, and social conditions that enable the extraction of natural and mineral resources from Indigenous and rural communities in Africa, the Americas, and the Asia-Pacific. The end of direct colonialism and the emergence of the development state did not necessarily translate into forms of local sovereignty for these communities who bore the brunt of development. I describe the emergence of resource wars in the postcolonial era and how organizational technologies of extraction, exclusion and expulsion lead to dispossession and death. I conclude by discussing possibilities of resistance and develop the notion of translocal resistance where local actors most affected by development are able to forge a series of temporary coalitions with international and national groups in an attempt to promote some form of participatory democracy. The article advance debates on postcolonialism by developing theoretical insights from translocal modes of resistance that open up new analytical spaces marked by particular configurations of market, state and civil society actors.
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ISSN:1350-5084
1461-7323
DOI:10.1177/1350508411398729