We will give our blood, but not our land!”—Repertoires of resistance and state-organized land-grabbing at a Bangladeshi tea plantation

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13009261
AutoresAshrafuzzaman Khan (University of Ulster, autor de correspondencia), Kristian Lasslett (0000-0002-6877-4139, University of Ulster)
Año2023
Volumen12
Número1
Fecha de publicación2023-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaState Crime Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2046-6056 • E-ISSN: 2046-6064
EditorialPluto Journals (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.13169/statecrime.12.1.0068
OpenAlexW4378903343
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas27

Land-grabbing is an international issue closely associated with conflict and violence, as communities confront, through prolonged struggles, powerful elite networks involved in the illicit transformation of space. Resistance to land confiscations can be a life-and-death struggle especially for poor rural and urban communities whose livelihoods are tied to the targeted land. Because these struggles are often marked by corruption, state violence, and the persecution of already marginalized populations, they have become an area of emerging interest for state crime and state-corporate crime scholars. However, there is only introductory data mapping how communities resist land-grabs engineered through illegitimate state-corporate activity. Against this backdrop the following paper analyses a case of community resistance to land-grabs in Bangladesh using a contentious politics framework and the concept of land-laundering. The structure and activity of this resistance has been mapped through interviews with stakeholders involved in this struggle, complemented by documentary research

Agrarian society · Agriculture · Biology · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Elite · Geography · Land grabbing · Language change · Livelihood · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · State (computer science · Vulnerability (computing · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Land Rights and Reforms · Law · Ecology