192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
192 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The looming depletion of non-renewable resources has increased the global land grab in the past decade. So far however, the question of how and when people can influence economic outcomes has received little attention in the study of social movements.
Based on in-depth ethnographic field research since 2003 in the industrial forestry expansion frontiers in Brazil and elsewhere in the global... Read more
1. Mobilizing against Global Land Grabbing 2. Theory of Contentious Agency in Natural Resource Politics 3. The Expansion of Industrial Tree Plantations and Dispossession 4. Contentious Agency, the Brazilian Landless Movement, and Pulp Conflicts 5. Political Games Determining Resource Exploitation Pace and Style 6. Key Characters in Global Land Grab, illustrated by Industrial Forestry 7. Conclusion: the Role of Resistance in the Future of Land Grabbing
Biography
Markus Kröger is an Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Political and Economic Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
