Title :

The politics of the land rush. Scales of land contention and the reconfiguration of political authority

Author(s) :

Grajales, Jacobo [Auteur]
Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Administratives, Politiques et Sociales - UMR 8026 [CERAPS]
Institut universitaire de France [IUF]
Allain, Mathilde [Auteur]

Scientific editor(s) :

Hosseini, Hamed
Goodman, James
Motta, Sara
Gills, Barry

Book title :

The Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies

Pages :

287-299

Publisher :

Routledge

Publication place :

London

Publication date :

2020-07

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Science politique

English abstract : [en]

Problems of agrarian social change have been recently re-evaluated in light of the growing interest of investors and international organizations in land ownership. At the same time, transnational mobilizations have shed ...
Show more >Problems of agrarian social change have been recently re-evaluated in light of the growing interest of investors and international organizations in land ownership. At the same time, transnational mobilizations have shed light on the negative consequences of economic transformations on rural populations and their cultural and material well-being. The term “land grabbing” has proved useful by pointing toward diverse transformations in the political economy of land and has allowed the growing entanglement of local conflicts and global flows to be exposed. Yet, the frequent use of the term often conceals the diversity of social realities that it embraces, the historicity of these transformations and their articulation with local settings. This contribution proposes a focus on literature reflecting on shifts of scale in land control. As such, we argue that the assessment of current transformations of agrarian capitalism is fundamental to the understanding of the production of political authority in the Global South.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

ANR Project :

Capitalismes agraires en situation de post-conflit. Une perspective comparée

Administrative institution(s) :

Université de Lille
CNRS

Collections :

• Centre d'Études et de Recherches Administratives, Politiques et Sociales (CERAPS) - UMR 8026

Submission date :

2020-10-14T08:01:36Z
2020-10-20T09:03:36Z