Description: The story of the effect multinational capital has on indigenous communities in Bangladesh, based on local testimonies.
Brief description: Katy Gardner is professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics and is the author of several books including Discordant Development and Global Migrants, Local Lives: Travel and Transformation in Rural Bangladesh.
Review Quotes:
"'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