Anthropological Approaches to Resettlement

Michael M. Cernea is the Senior Advisor for Social Policy and Sociology of the World Bank, in Washington, D.C. He has taught and lectured in many universities in Europe and the United States, is the recipient of the Solon T. Kimball Award for Public Policy and Applied Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association (1988), and was elected to the Academy of Sciences of Romania (1991). He has written several books and numerous studies on development, social change, population resettlement, rural organizations, diffusion of innovations. He is the editor and senior author of the volume Putting People First: Sociological Variable in Development (Oxford University Press, 1985 and 1991). E. Guggenheim has been an anthropologist at the World Bank since 1989. His interest in resettlement stems from his dissertation fieldwork on class politics in the northern Philippines. Working in what would have been the command area of the Chico River hydroelectric dams, he saw first-hand the conflict generated by development-caused resettlement. His publications include Power and Protest in the Countryside (with Robert Weller), The Developmental Dynamics of Displacement; Cock or Bull: Cockfighting and Social Change in the Philip[1]pines ; Compadrazgo and the Symbolism of Birth (with Maurice Bloch) and Resettlement in Colombia: the Case of El Guavio

• Anthropological Approaches to Involuntary Resettlement: Policy, Practice, and Theory -- Anthropological and Sociological Research for Policy Development on Population Resettlement -- Legal Aspects of Involuntary Population Resettlement -- Involuntary Resettlement, Human Capital, and Economic Development -- Resettlement Planning in the Brazilian Power Sector: Recent Changes in Approach -- Resettlement After Involuntary Displacement: The Karelians in Finland -- The Yacyretá Experience with Urban Resettlement: Some Lessons and Insights -- Resettlement in Ghana: From Akosombo to Kpong -- The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute and Navajo Relocation -- Peasants, Planners, and Participation: Resettlement in Mexico1 -- Resettlement at Manantali, Mali: Short-Term Success, Long-Term Problems -- The Dynamics of Social and Economic Adaptation During Resettlement: The Case of Beles Valley in Ethiopia -- Involuntary Displacement and the Changing Frontiers of Kinship: A Study of Resettlement in Orissa -- Involuntary Resettlement: A Plea for the Host Population -- A Spatial Analysis of Involuntary Community Relocation: A South African Case Study1 -- Successful Involuntary Resettlement: Lessons from the Costa Rican Arenal Hydroelectric Project -- Disaster-related Refugee Flows and Development-caused Population Displacement