Global Land Grabs: History, Theory and Method

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Marc Edelman (CUNY, USA) Carlos Oya (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK)

Global Land Grabs

History, Theory and Method

Marc Edelman (CUNY, USA), Carlos Oya (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK), Saturnino Borras Jr. (Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands)

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Routledge
09 June 2016

Development studies; Land rights; Agriculture & related industries; Human geography

Series: ThirdWorlds

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 foreign actors, the biofuels boom and Africa, and pointed to catastrophic consequences for the rural poor. Subsequently scholars carried out local case studies in diverse world regions. The contributors to this volume advance the discussion to a new stage, critically scrutinizing alarmist claims of the first wave of research, probing the historical antecedents of today’s land grabbing, examining large-scale land acquisitions in light of international human rights and investment law, and considering anew longstanding questions in agrarian political economy about forms of dispossession and accumulation and grassroots resistance.

Readers of this collection will learn about the impacts of land and water grabbing; the relevance of key theorists, including Marx, Polanyi and Harvey; the realities of China’s involvement in Africa; how contemporary land grabbing differs from earlier plantation agriculture; and how social movements—and rural people in general—are responding to this new threat.

This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

Edited by: Marc Edelman (CUNY USA), Carlos Oya (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK), Saturnino Borras Jr. (Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138691308
ISBN 10: 1138691305
Series: ThirdWorlds
Pages: 242
Publication Date: 09 June 2016
Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.