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

Dados Bibliográficos

ID13009261
AutoresAshrafuzzaman Khan (University of Ulster, autor correspondente), Kristian Lasslett (0000-0002-6877-4139, University of Ulster)
Ano2023
Volume12
Fascículo1
Data de publicação2023-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoState Crime Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2046-6056 • E-ISSN: 2046-6064
EditoraPluto Journals (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.13169/statecrime.12.1.0068
OpenAlexW4378903343
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências 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