<p>This collection considers academic research engagements with indigenous small peasant urban poor and labour social activism against colonial capitalist dispossession and exploitation in Asia and the Americas. <p/>Bringing together contributors from a range of different disciplines <i>Research Political Engagement and Dispossession </i>demonstrates how research done for and with these struggles against dispossession by mining agribusiness plantations conversation schemes land-forest grabs water projects industrial disasters and the exploitation of workers and forced migrants can make productive contributions towards advancing their social and political prospects.</p>