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Predatory peace. Dispossession at Aceh's oil palm frontier

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ID2157353
AuthorsChristian Lund (0000-0003-1196-9709)
Year2018
Volume45
Issue2
Pages431-452
Publication date2018-02-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Peasant Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0306-6150 • E-ISSN: 1743-9361
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03066150.2017.1351434
OpenAlexW2754669267
LanguageEN
Citations received36
References cited33

The end of the civil war in Aceh brought peace, but it has been of a predatory nature. As a moment of rupture, the peace revealed interests, powers and dynamics, and it offered an opportunity for their reconfiguration. When unrest ceased, old agrarian conflicts between smallholders and planters resumed. Peace held promise of land reform. Yet old patterns of smallholder dispossession were entrenched as the former insurgency leadership aligned with the old elite of plantation companies. Oil palm contract-farming schemes effectively alienated smallholders from their land, and violence precluded their organization. As a result, large-scale plantation production expanded. Through the creation of a violent frontier, smallholders were denied recognition of independent rights and property. In essence, smallholders were dispossessed by a combination of violence, political power and duplicitous paperwork. The study is based on fieldwork in areas where current land conflicts are played out, as well as on secondary sources

Agrarian society · Agriculture · Archaeology · Economics · Economy · Elite · Frontier · Geography · Insurgency · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Property rights · Sociology · Unrest · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Asian Studies and History · Law · Oil Palm Production and Sustainability

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Unique citing works36
Citations per year4
Citation span2017 - 2026 (10)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 35

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