Territory grabbing: agrarian perspectives on the unmaking and reclaiming of Palestinian sovereignty

The Journal of Peasant Studies, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 28

Published: Feb. 26, 2025

Language: Английский

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Migrant (farm)workers and farmers in China and Myanmar: a perspective from the sugarcane sector

Agriculture and Human Values, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 14, 2025

Language: Английский

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Seven reasons why climate-induced land grabbing requires significant changes in land governance

The Journal of Peasant Studies, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 20

Published: March 21, 2025

Language: Английский

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Oil extraction and indirect dispossession: responsibility and resistance in southern sacrifice zones

The Journal of Peasant Studies, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 32

Published: April 21, 2025

Language: Английский

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Emerging migrant workers and aspiring capitalist farmers in the aftermath of the land rush in Ethiopia

Agriculture and Human Values, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 22, 2025

Language: Английский

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Towards a right to the rural?

Dialogues in Human Geography, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 24, 2025

Inspired by geographical work on the right to city, there is nascent scholarly interest in a rural. Given that concept has proven useful urban context for both scholars and organizers, it indeed worth considering its intellectual political potential countryside. We survey use of city social movements, as well efforts apply this theoretical framework rural areas. proceed argue struggles over access space are compelling starting point developing rural, highlighting along way increasing prominence rentiership shaping land control struggles. Drawing three case studies conflicts USA we with potential, but also caution not panacea. It open-ended, itself site struggle.

Language: Английский

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Spectacularization and the land rush in the Colombian Altillanura

Globalizations, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 22

Published: April 29, 2025

Language: Английский

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Racial capitalism and women’s horticultural labour in Senegal: neo-housewifisation and the micro-politics of paternalism

The Journal of Peasant Studies, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 28

Published: May 2, 2024

The article addresses the social relations of labour in Senegal a decade after land rush. Based on an intersectional feminist analysis three firms, study found that workers' subjugation to patriarchal control their households and workplace capitalists indicate emergence associated with settler colonies Africa. I argue strategic alliances between patriarchy racial capitalism influence mobilisation classes: i) through subordination women younger male workers farm management micropolitics paternalism; ii) new spatial fixation forms previously mobile footloose junior staying close families for work such they become compliant tied force. This occurs simultaneously urban exodus rural peri-urban areas where commercial horticultural farms are located. Class consciousness is stymied so resistance circumscribed, taking limited, individualised forms.

Language: Английский

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Minding ‘Productive Gaps’: An Appraisal of Non-operational Land Deals in Seven Sub-Saharan African Countries

The Journal of Development Studies, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 60(8), P. 1167 - 1183

Published: April 4, 2024

One of the dominant global development agendas for rural Africa in past two decades has cast large-scale agro-industrial investments as a solution to achieve more efficient land use, higher crop yields, enhanced food security, and poverty reduction, among others. However, mounting evidence shows that this agenda not fulfilled its promises: most deals agricultural production have materialised planned their socio-economic objectives often remain unreached. Despite severe impacts non-operational projects, knowledge about why they fail take place operate remains fragmentary. Based on an extensive literature review contemporary seven sub-Saharan countries, paper sheds light 'productive gaps'. First, article delves into gap' themselves, identifying key drivers deals. The reviewed points local opposition financial difficulties significant factors impacting operations. Local opposition, turn, stems largely from flawed acquisition processes unfulfilled investors' promises. Second, offers critical appraisal biases oversights grab scholarship 'produced'.

Language: Английский

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China and Global Land Use Change

Oxford University Press eBooks, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: June 20, 2024

Abstract Recent decades have seen rapid, extensive, and profound changes to global land use. The role played by China in this dramatic process has been significant, but how, exactly, are we understand that role? In the context of grabs, figured prominently, especially earlier phase phenomenon, some suggest China’s might overestimated. argument chapter makes overlaps with diverges from debate about grabs delves into character extent driving land-use change, which, turn, implications for social life. argues both change far more complex extensive than was previously understood. proposes a typology facilitate analysis through matrix multiple interactive variables: formal/informal, direct/indirect, internal/external, centering on relations. so doing, its hidden informal deals visible, indistinct indirect transparent, obscure internal/external linkages obvious.

Language: Английский

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