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Author:   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)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138691308

ISBN 10:   1138691305
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   09 June 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Global Land Grabs: historical processes, theoretical and methodological implications and current trajectories 2. The Land Rush and Classic Agrarian Questions of Capital and Labour: a systematic scoping review of the socioeconomic impact of land grabs in Africa 3. Land Grabbing, Large- and Small-scale Farming: what can evidence and policy from 20th century Africa contribute to the debate? 4. Primitive Accumulation, Accumulation by Dispossession and the Global Land Grab 5. The New Enclosures? Polanyi, international investment law and the global land rush 6. Human Rights Responses to Land Grabbing: a right to food perspective 7. The Global Politics of Water Grabbing 8. Green Dreams: Myth and Reality in China’s Agricultural Investment in Africa 9. Cycles of Land Grabbing in Central America: an argument for history and a case study in the Bajo Aguán, Honduras 10. Global Land Grabbing and Political Reactions ‘From Below’

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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.

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