Resettlement, Rights to Development and the Ilisu Dam, Turkey

A cursory attempt to measure the extent of displacement over the past two decades indicates significant increases in conflict‐induced displacement and displacement resulting from development projects. At the same time a growing opposition to the latter form of displacement has raised questions over...

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Published in:Development and change 2004-09, Vol.35 (4), p.719-741
Main Author: Morvaridi, Behrooz
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activists
Community participation
Dams
Development Programs
Development projects
Displacement
Human rights
Hydroelectric power plants
Kurds
Non-governmental organizations
Refugees
Relocation
Resettlement
Rights
Social exclusion
Social Inequality
Social justice
Turkey
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Summary:A cursory attempt to measure the extent of displacement over the past two decades indicates significant increases in conflict‐induced displacement and displacement resulting from development projects. At the same time a growing opposition to the latter form of displacement has raised questions over its legitimacy through a variety of media, including public campaigns and protests. This article focuses on some of the challenges that this presents to the displacement and resettlement discourse. In particular it considers the influences of the rights to development agenda on the spatial context of displacement and its associated economic and political changes. There appears to be a disjuncture between the practices of mainstream development, which tend to interpret development policy as it is defined and applied by a nation state and to assess inequalities within clear geographical definitions, and the universality of a rights based approach to development. This article examines these tensions in the context of displacement and resettlement management, drawing on evidence from a case study of the Ilisu dam in South East Anatolia, Turkey.
ISSN:0012-155X
1467-7660
DOI:10.1111/j.0012-155X.2004.00377.x