Building the Politics Machine
Tools for 'Resolving' the Global Land Grab
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3884098 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maggie Dwyer (0000-0002-5500-9382, corresponding author), Michael B Dwyer |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 309-333 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Development and Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-155X • E-ISSN: 1467-7660 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/dech.12014 |
| OpenAlex | W2124144313 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 47 |
| References cited | 14 |
The recent proliferation of transnational land deals has put the long-fraught relationship between international cooperation, national development and local dispossession back in the political spotlight. This article argues that transnational land access cannot be resolved as a political question without a better understanding of the material, legal and administrative geographies that accompany and enable it. Using evidence from Laos, the paper illustrates two tools for 'resolving' the global land grab geographically: first, a biographical or trajectory-based approach that connects specific land grabs to larger development landscapes (e.g. of urban infrastructuring); and second, genealogies of property formalization that interrogate and deconstruct the legal geographies of land access, both on and off the map. The paper concludes by suggesting that these tools have purchase elsewhere as well
Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Property (philosophy) · Regional science · Sociology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
Great expectations
Laos’s Peripheral Centrality in Southeast Asia
Ecological Knowledge and the Making of Plantation Concession Territories in Southern Laos
The next Great Trek? South African commercial farmers move north
China's 'Developmental Outsourcing
Mapping the Srok
The geography of large-scale land acquisitions
Hydro/Power? Politics, Discourse and Neoliberalization in Laos's Hydroelectric Development
The long land grab
Peripheral centers
Beyond the Binary of Formal and Informal
Frontier commoditisation in post‐socialist Southeast Asia
Making concessions pay? Historical vs. potential tax revenues from Laos’s rubber sector
Contradictory Land Use Plans and Policies in Laos
Smaller-scale land grabs and accumulation from below
The A sian D evelopment B ank and the production of poverty
Are socialist domestic land grabs egalitarian? Insights from a case involving a rubber plantation in Dien Bien Province, Vietnam
Access to land reconsidered
Marginal land and the global land rush
The impact of agricultural investments on state capacity
Facing criticism
Climate precarity in rural livelihoods
The security exception
Revealing the hidden effects of land grabbing through better understanding of farmers’ strategies in dealing with land loss
State Spaces of Resistance
Transforming the Classic Political Forest
The Role of “Resources” in Regime Durability in Laos
They will not automatically benefit
Turning land into capital? The expansion and extraction of value in Laos
The company is here to do goodness to us
Material subjects
Conceptualising Party-State Governance and Rule in Laos
The International and Local Politics of the Rural Environmental Registry
Agricultural Investment in Ethiopia
Neoliberalizing Authoritarian Environmental Governance in (Post)Socialist Laos
Capitalizing on Compensation
Transition From Subsistence Agriculture to Rubber Plantations in Northern Laos
Mega-Plantations in Southeast Asia
Co-opting Authority and Privatizing Force in Rural Africa
The Politics of Land Grabbing
Transnational Farmland Investment
Knowledge and Control in the Contemporary Land Rush
Indigenous communal land titling, the microfinance industry, and agrarian change in Ratanakiri Province, Northeastern Cambodia
(Un)making the upland
What happened when the land grab came to Southeast Asia
The formalization fix? Land titling, land concessions and the politics of spatial transparency in Cambodia
When Land Becomes a Burden
Theories of swidden agriculture, and the political economy of ignorance
The post-opium scenario and rubber in northern Laos
Missing the point
Simplification is Complicated
Land Policy and Farming Practices in Laos
Land to some tillers
Deal or no deal
Unsettling Experiences
Primitive Accumulation from Feudalism to Neoliberalism
Expansion of rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) in Mainland Southeast Asia
Plantation rubber, land grabbing and social-property transformation in southern Laos
Fragmented sovereignty
Centering labor in the land grab debate
Policies, Political-Economy, and Swidden in Southeast Asia
| Unique citing works | 47 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,36 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 41 |