Looking back to see forward: the legal niceties of land theft in land rushes

By Liz Alden Wily. 2012

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science

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Making Concessions: Extractive Enclaves, Entangled Capitalism and Regulative Pluralism at the Gold Mining Frontier in Burkina Faso (2018, background): “Yet these deals are also crucial to the reproduction of authority, territory, sovereignty and government subjects (Korf, Hagmann, & Emmeneger, 2015; Peluso & Lund, 2011; Wily, 2012; Wolford, Borras, Hall, Scoones, & White, 2013).”
Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean (2012, unknown): “…and Kay and Franco (2012) on the water dimension of land grabbing, Hofman and Ho (2012) on an alternative view of Chinese land grabbers, Alden Wily (2012) on historical continuities, Li (2011) on centering labour in the debate, De Schutter (2011) on the right-to-food dimension, and Fairhead,…”
Land appropriation, surplus people and a battle over visions of agrarian futures in Africa (2013, background): “…as due to ‘the logic of agribusiness accumulation’ (Amanor 2012, 732) or ‘the latest stage in [the] competition for control of land and other natural resources’ across Africa (Woodhouse 2012, 777), or, more broadly still, as part of ‘class-creating social transformation’ (Alden Wily 2012, 751).”
The Tragedy of the Grabbed Commons: Coercion and Dispossession in the Global Land Rush (2017, background): “Putting the current global land rush in a historical perspective shows continuities and contrasts with past land rushes such as those associated with the colonial experience, and the historic trend in dispossession of native populations across the world and across centuries (White et al., 2012; Wily”
The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals (2012, background): “1915, 1919-1939, and 1945-1955, she underlines one key common aspect of all these land-grabbing episodes, the legal manipulations that ‘render untitled (but traditionally occupied and used) lands as unowned, and the state, by default, their legal owner’ (Wily 2012, this volume).”
Land grabbing, social differentiation, intensified migration and food security in northern Ghana (2017, background): “…land acquisitions made headlines through the ground-breaking report by GRAIN (2008), a rich and complex literature has emerged addressing the causes, drivers and dynamics unfolding at the global and regional scales (Alden Wily 2012; Cotula 2013; Deininger 2011; Hall 2011; Li 2011; McMichael 2012).”
Frontiers of Commodification: State Lands and Their Formalization (2015, background): “Land use titling here has been hailed by formalization proponents as equitable, efficient, peaceful, and cheap (Crewett, Bogale, and Korf 2008), but focusing the formalization process in the highlands has reproduced untitled southern lowland areas as terra nullis—a new frontier for capitalism5 (Abbi”
The geographic and sectoral patterns of large-scale farmland investments in sub-Saharan Africa (2014, background): “For example, it is argued that investor decisions are shaped by the existence of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BIT) between host and home government that offer inter alia legal protection against expropriation and unfavorable changes in host country legal frameworks and enables international arbitr”