To Make Live or Let Die? Rural Dispossession and the Protection of Surplus Populations

By T. Li. 2010

764 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Anthropology, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Political Science and International Relations

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In Anthropology

1. P. Peters
2. B. White
3. R. Bezner Kerr
4. I. Velicu
5. Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong
6. Stefania Barca
7. T. Benjaminsen
8. T. Li

In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. P. Peters
2. I. Scoones
3. R. Hall
4. Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
5. Wendy Wolford
6. R. Bezner Kerr
7. Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong
8. B. White

In Political Science and International Relations

1. P. Peters
2. B. White
3. R. Bezner Kerr
4. I. Velicu
5. Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong
6. Stefania Barca
7. T. Benjaminsen
8. B. White

Citations in the corpus

• The Just Transition and its work of inequality (2020, background): “Distributive policies that recognize the harm and offer compensations are generally adding to a growing global class of “3-nothings: no land, no job, no social security” (Li 2010).”
• Agriculture and the Generation Problem: Rural Youth, Employment and the Future of Farming (2012, background): “…larger enterprises, and every investment in new technologies tends to destroy jobs and expel people rather than creating jobs and absorbing them (Bernstein 2004; Li 2009, 2010); this is happening in agriculture and all other sectors, including those where the white-collar jobs used to be located.”
• Centering labor in the land grab debate (2011, background): “World Bank (2008) 208, Rigg (2007), Mosse (2007), Rutherford (2008). 286 Tania Murray Li”
• Land appropriation, surplus people and a battle over visions of agrarian futures in Africa (2013, background): “…forms of agrarian transition … expel people from agriculture without absorbing their labour in manufactures or elsewhere in the economy’, thus making them surplus ‘to capital’s requirements for labour’ (2012, 624–625; cf. Bernstein 2004, Li 2009, 2010, Tanner 2010, O’Laughlin et al. 2013).”
• The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals (2012, background): “…involve investments and dispossession that expel people from agriculture without absorbing their labour in manufactures or elsewhere in the economy, and create an ‘agrarian question of labour’ (Bernstein 2004) involving large ‘surplus populations’ of the dispossessed (Li 2009, 2010, Araghi 2010).”
• Green economy, degradation narratives, and land-use conflicts in Tanzania (2020, background): “In development studies, and political ecology in particular, there has been a renewed interest in the interplay between dispossession and capital accumulation (Benjaminsen & Bryceson, 2012; Büscher, 2009; Corson, 2011; Glassman, 2006; Kelly, 2011; Li, 2010; Roberts, 2008; Shivji, 2008; Sneddon, 2007”
• Land grabbing, social differentiation, intensified migration and food security in northern Ghana (2017, background): “Tania Murray Li has examined land grabbing and the agrarian question of labor, especially as land dispossession is creating a surplus population whose ‘land is needed, but their labour is not’ (Li 2011, 286; see also Li 2010).”