Global Land Grabbing and Political Reactions ‘From Below’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11186356 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Saturnino M Borras Jr (0000-0003-3092-7467, Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University, corresponding author), Saturnino M Borras, Jennifer C Franco (0000-0002-7807-1517) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 1723-1747 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Third World Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0143-6597 • E-ISSN: 1360-2241 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01436597.2013.843845 |
| OpenAlex | W2054001842 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 300 |
Contemporary large-scale land deals are widely understood as involving the expulsion of people who, in turn, struggle instinctively to resist dispossession This is certainly true in many instances. Yet this chain of events evidently does not always occur: large-scale land deals do not always result in people losing the land, and many of those who face expulsion do not necessarily respond with the kind of resistance often expected of them. Indeed, much evidence shows that the nature of and responses to big land deals can (and do) vary across and within ‘local communities’. Taking off analytically from a relatively narrow selection of cases, the expulsion–resistance scenario is too often assumed rather than demonstrated, thereby leaving many inconvenient facts undetected and unexplained. This suggests a need to step back and problematise the variable and uneven responses ‘from below’ to land grabbing, both within and between communities. This paper offers an initial exploration into why poor people affected by contemporary land deals (re)act the way they do, noting how issues and processes unite and divide them. This helps explain variation in political trajectories in the context of land grabbing today
Context (archaeology · Development economics · Economics · Geography · Land grabbing · Land use · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Scale (ratio · Sociology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Ecology · Law
Citizenship, Dispossession and Demands for Justice in the Global South
From waterlogging to land grabbing
Subverting green growth propaganda
Towards a conceptual understanding of dispossession - Belo Monte and the precarization of the riverine people
‘They’re selling our oxygen!’ Rumours and conservation in Yangambi Biosphere Reserve
Sowing discontent
Global Health
Studying the Worldeater(s)
The Worldeater(s) in Process
Studying Complex Interactions and Outcomes Through Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Gender equality in science, medicine, and global health
Ocean grabbing
Industrial to investment
Securing Rights to Communal Land in Zimbabwe
Putting violent armed conflict in the center of the Salween hydropower debates
A Normative Theory of Food Systems
The Concentrated Legal Geography of Chilean Rural Private Property
Digital farming, invisible farmers
Lo que el viento no se llevó. El papel de los ganaderos en la promoción de la industria eólica en el Istmo de Tehuantepec, Oaxaca
Large-scale agro-industries and host community land restitution demands
Rural livelihood, accumulation and class formation in post-development-induced displacements in Zimbabwe
Rethinking land grabbing
Land grabbing, CSR, and the (de)mobilization of resistance
Local brokerage and international leverage
Land, the Politics of Development and Protest in Ethiopia
Beyond informality
Dispossession
Class, caste and religion
Testing Claims about Large Land Deals in Africa
Communal Landholders’ Contestations Over Urban Expansion Induced Land Grabbing in Zimbabwe
Minding ‘Productive Gaps’
Business ‘Power of Presence’
The Human Right to Health
Going Nowhere Fast
Brazilian Agricultural Frontier
Capital grabs back
Values, Knowledge, and Rights Shaping Land Use in the Peruvian Amazon
Rights of Nature in the United States
‘From barren to beautiful’
Violence hidden in plain sight
When Land Expropriation Increases Income
Permutations of a lie
The moral economy of defence of territory and the political economy of extractivism in the Polochic valley, Guatemala
Autonomy and repeasantization
A framework for understanding land control transfer in agricultural commodity frontiers
The fragmented politics of sugarcane contract farming in Uganda
African Green Revolution, food sovereignty and constrained livelihood choice in Mozambique
Manufactured regional crises
Who owns the land owns the wind? Land and citizenship in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico
Agrarian change in neoliberal Turkey
Movimentos Socioterritoriais Na Luta Contra Estrangeirização Do Território
Ciclos De Extranjerización Y Concentración De La Tierra en Paraguay/Ciclos De Estrangeirização E Concentração Da Terra No Paraguai/Cycles of Land Foreignization and Land Concentration in Paraguay
Matopiba
Acumulação Pela Renda Da Terra E Disputas Territoriais Na Fronteira Agrícola Brasileira/ Accumulation by Land Rent and Territorial Disputes in Brazilian Agricultural Frontier/ Acumulación Por La Renta Tierra Y Disputas Territoriales en La Frontera Agrícola Brasileña
Quarantining activism
Nunca dejamos de ser Paĩ
"Chilote tipo salmón". Relaciones entre comodificación de la naturaleza y procesos de producción identitaria
Chiefs do not talk law, most of them talk power.” Traditional authorities in conflicts over land grabbing in Ghana
Making boundaries, disputing land
At the intersections of multiple marginalisations
La Piedra en el Zapato
Explaining fragmented and fluid mobilization in gold mining concessions in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
Governing the dark side of renewable energy
Triggering resistance
Redefining land’s investability
An extraversion affair
We will give our blood, but not our land!”—Repertoires of resistance and state-organized land-grabbing at a Bangladeshi tea plantation
The miskeet tree doesn't belong here
Claiming Democracy and Environmental Justice at the Margins
Threats to sustainable development posed by land and water grabbing
CSO Networks and Resistance to Forced Displacement in Cambodia
The many faces of Post-Development
For what and for whom? A political ecology of agrivoltaics in the Southwestern United States
Solar power, land control, and Indigenous resistance in Yucatán, Mexico
Globalization and Its Countermovement
Volume 23, Número 1
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Between land and the market
Wind, coal, and copper
States and corporate land acquisition
Holding corporations from middle countries accountable for human rights violations
Transnational land investment web
Tackling terricide, not (only) ecocide
Tracking the sun
Say Yes to Dams? Negotiating Development and Uncertainty in a Large Dam Project in the Philippines
Collaborating and resisting
The Power to Plunder
Unfolding the Enigma of Dispossession in India
Land Grabbing in Common Property Resources
What is land? Assembling a resource for global investment
Between two hypes
Understanding ‘night grazing’
Anti-Corporate Activism and Collusion
Outgrower schemes, livelihoods and response pathways on the Zambian ‘sugarbelt’
Uneven incorporation
From Shangri-La to de-facto SEZ
Extractive subjectivity in a corporate coal mining site in Colombia
Resistance, repression and elite dynamics
| Unique citing works | 300 |
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| Citations per year | 25 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 294 |