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States and Corporate Land Acquisition: Comparing Regimes of Dispossession across the Global South book cover

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States and Corporate Land Acquisition Comparing Regimes of Dispossession across the Global South

Edited By Ward Berenschot, Neil Loughlin Copyright 2027
152 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines how states and corporations across the Global South acquire land, identifying distinct patterns of expropriation and resistance. Across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, economic growth in sectors such as mining, agribusiness, energy, infrastructure, and real estate is driving far-reaching land-use change. Yet the processes of dispossession that underpin these transformations... Read more

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3. The production of rightlessness: palm oil companies and land dispossession in Indonesia

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4. Speculative land grabs and Chinese investment: Cambodia’s evolving regime of dispossession

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5. Dispossession of the commons: the Chaiya community forest and the creation of special economic zones

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6. Tracking the sun: exposing India’s solar dispossessions

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7. Land-grabbing mafias and dispossession in the Brazilian Amazon: rural–urban land speculation and deforestation in the Santarém region

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8. Reconstructing regimes of dispossession

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Biography

Ward Berenschot is Professor of Comparative Political Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and a Senior Researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV). He is the author of Riot Politics (2011) and co-author of Democracy for Sale (2019) and Rightless Resistance (2026).

Neil Loughlin is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Comparative Politics at City St George’s, University of London. His research examines authoritarian politics and the political economy of development, and has appeared in journals including Comparative Politics, Democratization, Third World Quarterly, and the Journal of Contemporary Asia. He is the author of The Politics of Coercion: State and Regime Making in Cambodia (2024).

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