Wolford / Borras / Hall Governing Global Land Deals

The Role of the State in the Rush for Land
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-68824-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Development and Change Special Issues

This collection of essays in Governing Global LandDeals provides new empirical and theoretical analyses ofthe relationships between global land grabs and processes ofgovernment and governance.
* Reframes debates on global land grabs by focusing on therelationship between large-scale land deals and processes ofgovernance
* Offers new theoretical insights into the different forms andeffects of global land acquisitions
* Illuminates both the micro-processes of transaction andexpropriation, as well as the broader structural forces at play inglobal land deals
* Provides new empirical data on the different actorsinvolved in contemporary land deals occurring across the globe andfocuses on the specific institutional, political, and economiccontexts in which they are acting

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wolford, Wendy

Borras, Saturnino M.

Hall, Ruth

Scoones, Ian

White, Ben

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors vii
1 Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rushfor Land 1
Wendy Wolford, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoonesand Ben White
2 State Involvement, Land Grabbing and Counter-Insurgency inColombia 23
Jacobo Grajales
3 Road Mapping: Megaprojects and Land Grabs in the NorthernGuatemalan Lowlands 45
Liza Grandia
4 Land Regularization in Brazil and the Global Land Grab71
Gustavo de L.T. Oliveira
5 Negotiating Environmental Sovereignty in Costa Rica 93
Dana J. Graef
6 Building the Politics Machine: Tools for'Resolving' the Global Land Grab 117
Michael B. Dwyer
7 Indirect Dispossession: Domestic Power Imbalances and ForeignAccess to Land in Mozambique 141
Madeleine Fairbairn
8 Competition over Authority and Access: International LandDeals in Madagascar 163
Perrine Burnod, Mathilde Gingembre and Rivo AndrianirinaRatsialonana
9 Regimes of Dispossession: From Steel Towns to Special EconomicZones 185
Michael Levien
10 The Political Construction of Wasteland: Governmentality,Land Acquisition and Social Inequality in South India 211
Jennifer Baka
11 Chinese Land-Based Interventions in Senegal 231
Lila Buckley
12 Identity, Territory and Land Conflict in Brazil 253
LaShandra Sullivan
Index 275

Über Autor(innen)

Wendy Wolford is the Robert A. and Ruth E. PolsonProfessor of Development Sociology at Cornell University.
Saturnino M. Borras, Jr. is Associate Professor ofRural Development Studies at the International Institute of SocialStudies (ISS) in The Hague, The Netherlands.
Ruth Hall is an Associate Professor at the Institutefor Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University ofthe Western Cape.
Ian Scoones is a Professorial Fellow at theInstitute of Development Studies at the University of Sussexand co-director of the ESRC STEPS Centre at Sussex and jointconvener of the IDS-hosted FutureAgricultures Consortium.
Ben White is Emeritus Professor of RuralSociology at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) inThe Hague, the Netherlands.
The editors are co-coordinators of the Land Deal PoliticsInitiative (LDPI: ww.iss.nl/ldpi), an internationalnetwork of scholars doing engaged research on the issue of globalland grabbing.