1st Edition

Global Land Grabs History, Theory and Method

Edited By Marc Edelman, Carlos Oya, Saturnino Borras Jr. Copyright 2015
252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

Since the 2008 world food crisis a surge of land grabbing swept Africa, Asia and Latin America and even some regions of Europe and North America. Investors have uprooted rural communities for massive agricultural, biofuels, mining, industrial and urbanisation projects. ‘Water grabbing’ and ‘green grabbing’ have further exacerbated social tensions. Early analyses of land grabbing focused on... Read more

1. Global Land Grabs: historical processes, theoretical and methodological implications and current trajectories  2. The Land Rush and Classic Agrarian Questions of Capital and Labour: a systematic scoping review of the socioeconomic impact of land grabs in Africa  3. Land Grabbing, Large- and Small-scale Farming: what can evidence and policy from 20th century Africa contribute to the debate?  4. Primitive Accumulation, Accumulation by Dispossession and the Global Land Grab  5. The New Enclosures? Polanyi, international investment law and the global land rush  6. Human Rights Responses to Land Grabbing: a right to food perspective  7. The Global Politics of Water Grabbing  8. Green Dreams: Myth and Reality in China’s Agricultural Investment in Africa  9. Cycles of Land Grabbing in Central America: an argument for history and a case study in the Bajo Aguán, Honduras  10. Global Land Grabbing and Political Reactions ‘From Below’

Biography

Marc Edelman is professor of anthropology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Carlos Oya is Reader in Political Economy of Development at SOAS, University of London.

Saturnino M Borras Jr is an associate professor at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague, The Netherlands.