The new enclosures : critical perspectives on corporate land deals
2013
Book
Total copies: 1
This collection explores the complex dynamics of corporate land deals from a broad agrarian political economy perspective, with a special focus on the implications for property and labour regimes, labour processes and structures of accumulation. This involves looking at ways in which existing patterns of rural social differentiation - in terms of class, gender, ethnicity and generation - are being shaped by changes in land use and property relations, as well as by the re-organization of production and exchange as rural communities and resources are incorporated into global commodity chains. It goes further than the descriptive `what' and `who' questions, in order to understand the `how' and `why' of these patterns. It is empirically solid and theoretically sophisticated, making it a robust and boundary-changing work. Contributors come from various scholarly disciplines. Covering nearly all regions of the world, the collection will be of interest to researchers from various disciplines, policymakers and activists. This book was originally published as a Special Issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies.
Main title:
The new enclosures : critical perspectives on corporate land deals / edited by Ben White ... [et al.].
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Imprint:
London : Routledge, 2013.
Collation:
512 p. ; 25 cm.
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Contents:
1. The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals -- 2. The international political economy of the global land rush: A critical appraisal of trends, scale, geography and drivers -- 3. The land grab and corporate food regime restructuring -- -- -- 4. Situating private equity capital in the land grab debate -- 5. Global resource grabs, agribusiness concentration and the smallholder: two West African case studies -- 6. Looking back to see forward: the legal niceties of land theft in land rushes -- 7. New investment, old challenges. Land deals and the water constraint in African Agriculture -- 8. Patterns of agrarian transformation in Ethiopia: State-mediated commercialisation and the `land grab' -- 9. The next Great Trek? South African commercial farmers move north -- 10. Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean -- 11. Agrarian structure, foreign investment in land, and land prices in Brazil -- 12. Oligarchs, megafarms and land reserves: understanding land grabbing in Russia -- -- -- 13. The land question: special economic zones and the political economy of dispossession in India -- 14. Land expropriation and displacement in Bangladesh -- 15. Gendered experiences of dispossession: oil palm expansion in a Dayak Hibun community in West Kalimantan -- 16. Plantation rubber, land grabbing and social-property transformation in southern Laos -- 17. Large-scale land deals from the inside out: findings from Kenya's Tana Delta -- 18. Tree plantations, politics of possession and the absence of land grabs in Vietnam
ISBN:
9780415823746 (hbk)
Dewey class:
333.76
LC class:
HD111
Language:
English
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BRN:
391915