Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land

By Wendy Wolford, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., R. Hall, I. Scoones, B. White. 2013

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List of Contributors vii 1 Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land 1 Wendy Wolford, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones and Ben White 2 State Involvement, Land Grabbing and Counter-Insurgency in Colombia 23 Jacobo Grajales 3 Road Mapping: Megaprojects and Land Grabs in the Northern Guatemalan Lowlands 45 Liza Grandia 4 Land Regularization in Brazil and the Global Land Grab 71 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 Foreign Access to Land in Mozambique 141 Madeleine Fairbairn 8 Competition over Authority and Access: International Land Deals in Madagascar 163 Perrine Burnod, Mathilde Gingembre and Rivo Andrianirina Ratsialonana 9 Regimes of Dispossession: From Steel Towns to Special Economic Zones 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

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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Solar power, state power, and the politics of energy transition in pre-Saharan Morocco (2016, background): “The Moroccan state plays a fundamental role in these discursive and juridical constructions, much in the way other national governments facilitate large-scale land transfers for extraction, agriculture, or other ‘environmental ends’ (Fairhead et al., 2012; Wolford et al., 2013).”
The politics of evidence: methodologies for understanding the global land rush (2013, unknown): “6http://landportal.info/landmatrix 7http://www.farmlandgrab.org/ 8See: Wolford et al. (2013); Margulis et al. (2013) ; Borras et al. (2013) ; White et al. (2012) ; Mehta et al. (2012) and Fairhead et al. (2012).”
Spatial justice and the land politics of renewables: Dispossessing vulnerable communities through solar energy mega-projects (2016, background): “…many different contexts globally, such as in studies of conservation (Whitehead, 2010), large dam construction (Nilsen, 2010), mining (Bury, 2005; Holden et al., 2011), and land commodification in the interests of industrial and urban growth (Grajales, 2013; Oliveira, 2013; Wolford et al., 2013).”
The Handbook of Neoliberalism (2016, background): “Owing to the conflictual nature of some land grabbing, a variety of civil society organizations, governments and international organizations have tried to regulate land grabbing by drafting codes of conduct (Wolford et al. 2013; Margulis et al. 2014).”
“Value Grabbing”: A Political Ecology of Rent (2017, background): “A clear example is the wave of “land grabbing” in Africa, where investors have rushed to acquire farmland since 2007–2008 (Wolford et al. 2013), and where post-socialist or post-colonial states can manipulate property rights in order to facilitate the transfer of land (Alden Wily 2012).”