1. Introduction: New frontiers of land control Nancy Lee Peluso, University of California, USA and Christian Lund, Roskilde University, Denmark
2. Conservation practice as primitive accumulation Alice B. Kelly, University of California, USA
3. Redefining ‘state’ territorialization under neoliberalism: non-state influences in struggles over Madagascar’s forests Catherine Corson, Mount Holyoke College, USA
4. Making spaces, making subjects: land, enclosure and holy war in colonial Malaya Amrita Malhi, The Australian National University, Australia
5. Ceasefire capitalism: military-private partnerships, resource concessions, and military-state building in the Burma-China borderlands Kevin Woods, University of California, USA
6. The rifle and the title: paramilitary violence, land grab and land control in Colombia Jacobo Grajales, Centre d’Études et Recherches Internationales, France
7. Genocide survival as ethnic resurgence: the production of place and identity through Guatemala’s civil war Megan Ybarra, Willamette College, USA
8. Emergent forest and private land regimes in Java Nancy Lee Peluso, University of California, USA
9. Land control, land grabs, and Southeast Asian crop booms Derek Hall, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
10. Carbon forestry and agrarian change: access and land control in a Mexican rainforest Tracey Osborne, University of Arizona, USA
12. Fragmented sovereignty: land reform and dispossession in Laos Christian Lund, Roskilde University, Denmark
Biography
Nancy Lee Peluso is Henry J. Vaux Distinguished Professor of Forest Policy and Professor of Society and Environment in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California, USA. She is Co-Director of the Berkeley Workshop in Environmental Politics.
Christian Lund is Professor of Development Studies at Roskilde University, Denmark and the Director of the Research Unit, ProCit (Property and Citizenship in Developing Societies).