Global land grabbing and political reactions 'from below'
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Global land grabbing and political reactions 'from below'
（Critical agrarian studies / series editor, Saturnino M. Borras Jr.）
Routledge, 2018
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Other editors: Ruth Hall, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ian Scoones, Ben White, Wendy Wolford
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Description
When the 2007-2008 food and financial crises triggered a global wave of land grabbing, scholars, activists and policy practitioners assumed that this would be met with massive peasant resistance. As empirical evidence accumulated, however, it became clear that political reactions 'from below' to land grabbing were quite varied and complex. Violent resistance, outright expulsions, everyday 'weapons of the weak' and demands for better terms of incorporation into land deals were among the outcomes that emerged. Readers of this collection will encounter a multinational group of scholars who use the tools of social movements theory and critical agrarian studies to examine cases from Argentina, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Colombia, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Uganda, Mali, Ukraine, India, and Laos, as well as the Rio +20 Sustainable Development Conference. Initiatives 'from below' in response to land deals have involved local and transnational alliances and the use of legal and extra-legal methods, and have brought victories and defeats. This book was first published as a special issue of The Journal of Peasant Studies.
Table of Contents
1. Resistance, acquiescence or incorporation? An introduction to land grabbing and political reactions 'from below' 2. Anything but a story foretold: multiple politics of resistance to the agrarian extractivist project in Guatemala 3. Listening to their silence? The political reaction of affected communities to large-scale land acquisitions: insights from Ethiopia 4. Land grabbing, legal contention and institutional change in Colombia 5. Resistance or participation? Fighting against corporate land access amid political uncertainty in Madagascar 6. Policy processes of a land grab: at the interface of politics 'in the air' and politics 'on the ground' in Massingir, Mozambique 7. Resistance or adaptation? Ukrainian peasants' responses to large-scale land acquisitions 8. Politics from below? Small-, mid- and large-scale land dispossession in Teso, Uganda, and the relevance of scale 9. Social struggles in Uganda's Acholiland: understanding responses and resistance to Amuru sugar works 10. Territorial restructuring and resistance in Argentina 11. Networked, rooted and territorial: green grabbing and resistance in Chiapas 12. Guerrilla agriculture? A biopolitical guide to illicit cultivation within an IUCN Category II protected area 13. Reclaiming the worker's property: control grabbing, farmworkers and the Las Tunas Accords in Nicaragua 14. The 'Goan Impasse': land rights and resistance to SEZs in Goa, India 15. Oil palm expansion without enclosure: smallholders and environmental narratives 16. Rubber, rights and resistance: the evolution of local struggles against a Chinese rubber concession in Northern Laos 17. Space for pluralism? Examining the Malibya land grab 18. The right to resist: disciplining civil society at Rio+20
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