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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays inGoverning Global Land Dealsprovides new empirical and theoretical analyses of the relationships between global land grabs and processes of government and governance.
- Reframes debates on global land grabs by focusing on the relationship between large-scale land deals and processes of governance
- Offers new theoretical insights into the different forms and effects of global land acquisitions
- Illuminates both the micro-processes of transaction and expropriation, as well as the broader structural forces at play in global land deals
- Providesnew empirical data on the different actors involved in contemporary land deals occurring across the globe and focuses on the specific institutional, political, and economic contexts in which they are acting
Table of ContentsList of Contributors vii
1 Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land 1
Wendy Wolford, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones and Ben White
2 State Involvement, Land Grabbing and Counter-Insurgency in Colombia 23
Jacobo Grajales
3 Road Mapping: Megaprojects and Land Grabs in the Northern Guatemalan Lowlands 45
Liza Grandia
4 Land Regularization in Brazil and the Global Land Grab 71
Gustavo de L.T. Oliveira
5 Negotiating Environmental Sovereignty in Costa Rica 93
Dana J. Graef
6 Building the Politics Machine: Tools for ‘Resolving’ the Global Land Grab 117
Michael B. Dwyer
7 Indirect Dispossession: Domestic Power Imbalances and Foreign Access to Land in Mozambique 141
Madeleine Fairbairn
8 Competition over Authority and Access: International Land Deals in Madagascar 163
Perrine Burnod, Mathilde Gingembre and Rivo Andrianirina Ratsialonana
9 Regimes of Dispossession: From Steel Towns to Special Economic Zones 185
Michael Levien
10 The Political Construction of Wasteland: Governmentality, Land Acquisition and Social Inequality in South India 211
Jennifer Baka
11 Chinese Land-Based Interventions in Senegal 231
Lila Buckley
12 Identity, Territory and Land Conflict in Brazil 253
LaShandra Sullivan
Index 275
