Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing.
This handbook provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of global land and resource grabbing.
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| Language: | English |
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Milton :
Taylor & Francis Group,
2023.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Endorsements
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Tables
- Figures
- Boxes
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- References
- 1. Global Land and Resource Grabbing: An Introduction
- Introduction: The Global Rush for Land and Natural Resources in the 21st Century
- Actors Driving the Global Land and Resource Rush
- Discourses and Narratives around Land and Resource Grabbing
- Development Discourses
- Crisis Narratives
- Terra Nullius or the Myth of Empty Lands
- Conservation Discourses
- Practices of Dispossession and Social Impacts of Land and Resource Grabbing
- Contributions to This Handbook
- References
- Part 1: Historical Trajectories of Land and Resource Grabbing
- 2. From the Colonial Doctrine of Discovery to Contemporary Land Grabs: 'Dignity Taking' against the Poor
- Introduction
- Dignity Takings and Land Grabbing
- The Violence of the Doctrine of Discovery and Contemporary Land Grabs
- Neocolonialism
- Empty Land and Productive Use Thesis
- Contiguous Land in Land Grabbing
- Conclusion
- References
- 3. Riro Whenua Atu, Hoki Whenua Mai: Land Grabbing in British Settler States and Contested Land Restitution to Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand
- Introduction
- Dispossessing Indigenous Peoples
- Canada
- United States
- Australia
- Dispossessing Māori
- Attempts at Land Restitution to Māori - Repossessions
- Alternatives to Repossessions
- International Influences
- Constitutional Transformation
- Conclusion
- References
- 4. Ruptures and Continuities: How the Global Land "Rush" (Re)produces Slow Violence on Latin America's Resource Frontiers
- Introduction
- Rethinking the Rush
- A Land Rush in Four Acts
- Grabbing as a Racialized Logic of Dispossession
- Conclusion: Colonial Continuities
- Notes
- References.
- Part 2: Enabling Mechanisms and Governance of Land and Resource Grabbing
- 5. Capture Land: Anti-squatting Policy as Processual Land Grab in Jamaica
- Introduction
- Anti-squatting Policy as a Processual Land Grab
- A History of the Present
- Post-emancipation Land Policy
- Postcoloniality and the Land Question
- Plant It Up, 1978
- Remix: Squatting as Crime, as Corruption
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 6. The Rule of Technocrats?: Historical Conditions for a Land Grab in Northern Guatemala
- Introduction
- Land Administration as Precursor to Land Grab in Northern Guatemala
- Making Property Rights, Erasing Land Claims
- When a Land Market Became the Answer to Guatemala's Agrarian Problem
- Powers of the Technical
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- Notes
- References
- 7. Governing Land Concessions in Laos
- Introduction
- Governing Land Grabbing
- Governmental Reforms
- State-Society Relations
- Transnational Governance
- Conclusion
- Note
- References
- Part 3: Large-Scale Land Acquisitions for Food, Feed and Biofuels
- 8. Sugar Agro-Extractivism: Land Enclosures, Contract Farming and the Sugar Frontier in Africa
- Introduction
- Land Grabbing or Development Opportunity?
- Enclosures and the Sugar Frontier
- The Socio-ecological Implications of Contracting Sugarcane Farming
- Resistance and Contentious Politics
- Conclusion
- References
- 9. Conceptualizing Contract Farming in the Global Land Grabbing Debate
- Introduction
- Contract Farming in the Land Grab Literature
- Contract Farming as a Form of Land Grabbing
- Contract Farming as an Inclusive Alternative
- Contract Farming as a Post-grab Production System
- Beyond Grabbing: Contract Farming as a Form of Land Control
- Contract Farming and Land: Recentering Agrarian Questions
- Notes
- References
- 10. GMOs, the Land Grab, and Epistemological Enclosures.
- Introduction
- Genetically Modified Organisms
- Enclosures and the Geopolitics of Knowledge
- Sites of Multiple Enclosures
- Epistemological Enclosures: Seeds and Place-Based Knowledges
- Resistance
- Concluding Remarks
- Acknowledgments
- Note
- References
- Part 4: Taking Land for Conservation, Eco-Tourism, Renewable Energy and Carbon Markets
- 11. Green Territoriality and Resource Extraction in Cambodia
- Introduction
- Green Territorialization: State-Making and Environmental Enclosures
- Forests in the Twentieth Century
- Establishing Environmental Governance in Cambodia (1990s-2000s)
- Contemporary Resource Grabbing and Green Territorialisation
- Resource Control and Extraction under the Guise of Green Territorialisation
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 12. Towards Climate-Smart Land Policy: Land Grabbing under a Changing Political Landscape in Mozambique
- Introduction
- Theoretical Lens and Literature Review
- Land Grabbing and "the Greener" New Scramble for Resources
- Climate Change and Land Grabbing: Towards Climate Smart Land Politics
- Role of the State and Institutions
- Land Grabbing and Political Landscape in Mozambique
- Context and Land Politics
- Changing Political Landscape towards Climate-Smart Land Use: Agricultural Policy towards Commodification and Financialization
- PEDSA and ProSAVANA
- SUSTENTA: Promoting Rural Financialization (Land as Collateral)
- Programa Terra Segura
- Green Agendas, Policy-Making, and Land Grabbing under Climate Change Narratives
- Land Policy Revision: Towards a More Business-Friendly Land Law
- Building a Policy Landscape Facilitating Land Grabbing: The Case of Zambézia Province
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgement
- Notes
- References
- 13. Renewables Grabbing: Land and Resource Appropriations in the Global Energy Transition
- Introduction.
- Changing Energy Frontiers
- Resource Grabbing and Conflict at the Renewable Energy Frontiers
- Large-Scale Biofuels
- Hydropower
- Wind Power
- Large-Scale Solar Power
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 14. Geospatial Technologies in Tourism Land and Resource Grabs: Evidence from Guatemala's Protected Areas
- Introduction
- Background: Maya Biosphere Reserve
- Reserve Forest Use and Management
- Contested Conservation Landscapes
- Geospatial Technologies and Tourism Land and Resource Grabbing in the Maya Biosphere Reserve
- Geospatial Knowledges and the Production of Touristic Spaces
- Threat Narratives and Geospatial Technologies
- Securitization Logics and Practices in Tourism Land Grabbing
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- References
- Part 5: Land Grabbing by Extractive Industries: Fossil Fuels, Minerals and Metals
- 15. Arctic Resource Extraction in the Context of Climate Crises and Ecological Collapses
- Introduction
- The Difficulties of Resource Extraction Amid Climate Catastrophes
- Neglect of the Climate Crisis in Arctic Government Policies
- Market and Social Responses to Worsening Extraction Possibilities
- Arctic Social Scientific Contributions to Global Land Grabbing Studies
- Concluding Remarks
- Note
- References
- 16. Territorial Control, Dispossession and Resistance: The Political Economy of Large-Scale Mining in Asia
- Introduction
- The Land and Large-Scale Mining Nexus in Asia: A Political Economy Framing
- Enabling Intermediate Practices of Accumulation and Dispossession, and Mining-Specific Repertoires of Resistance
- Territorial Control, Dispossession and Resistance: The Case of Mongolia
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 17. Phosphate Mining in Distant Places: The Dark Side of New Zealand's Agricultural Economic Success
- Introduction.
- The Critical Role of Phosphate in Agriculture
- Pacific Imperialism - The Case of Banaba Island
- Continuing Imperialism - The Case Study of Western Sahara Phosphate and Morocco
- Discussion and Conclusion
- References
- Part 6: Blue Grabbing: The Global Rush for Freshwater and Marine Resources
- 18. Cases of Water Grabbing in Waterscape Developments in India
- Introduction
- Scholarship on Water Grabbing
- Characteristics of Water Grabbing
- Groundwater Extraction
- Imported Water
- Designation and Delineation of the Waterbodies
- Desilting, Dredging, and Deepening
- Wastewater
- Life in/on Water
- Drainage Courses
- Stepwells and Borewells
- Value Grabbing
- Discussion and Ways Forward
- Notes
- References
- 19. The Historical Assembly of Oceania's Deep-Sea Mining Frontier
- Introduction
- Liminality, Ontological Politics and the Making of Deep-sea Mineral Resources
- DSM in the Pacific: The Current State of Play
- Phase One: Polymetallic Nodules in the International Seabed Almost Become Resources
- Phase Two: Resource-making Efforts Shift to Seafloor Massive Sulphides within National Jurisdictions
- Phase Three: The Return to Nodules in the Area
- Conclusion
- References
- 20. Resource Grabbing and the Blue Commons: The Evolution of Institutions in Scallop Production in Sechura Bay, Peru
- Introduction
- The IADF and Marine Privatization
- Method
- Results: The Evolution of Institutional Arrangements in Relation to Sea Bottom Access
- Understanding the Evolution Towards De Facto Enclosure
- Understanding the Establishment of a Formal Common Property Regime
- Understanding the Evolution of De Facto Private Property Rights
- Understanding the Establishment of a Formal Private Property Regime
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References.
- 21. Coastal Grabbing by Extractive Industries in the South Pacific: The Case of Fiji.