Governing global land deals: The role of the state in the rush for land

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dc.contributor.authorWolford, Wendy
dc.contributor.authorBorras Jr., Saturnino M.
dc.contributor.authorHall, Ruth
dc.contributor.authorScoones, Ian
dc.contributor.authorWhite, Ben
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-18T10:17:32Z
dc.date.available2017-09-18T10:17:32Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractOver the past decade, there has been a dramatic increase in large-scale land deals, often from public lands to the hands of foreign or domestic investors. Popularly referred to as a ‘global land grab’, new land acquisitions are drawing upon, restructuring and challenging the nature of both governance and government. In the Introduction to this special issue, we argue for an analysis of land deals that draws upon the insights of political ecology, cultural politics and agrarian studies to illuminate the micro-processes of transaction and expropriation as well as the broader structural forces at play. We argue that ‘the state’ is often invoked as a key player in land grabbing but states never operate with one voice; rather we need to unbundle the state, to see government and governance as processes, people and relationships. To develop this approach, we focus on territory, sovereignty, authority and subjects not as static objects but as relationships produced in and through place, property, power and production. Understanding the dynamic nature of these relationships is critical to understanding the highly variable form and content of large-scale land deals in different settings around the world. The papers in this special issue help to develop this perspective and this Introduction highlights important areas of convergence among them.en_US
dc.description.accreditationWeb of Science
dc.identifier.citationWolford, W. et al. (2013). Governing global land deals: The role of the state in the rush for land. Development and Change, 44(2): 189-210en_US
dc.identifier.issn0012-155X
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.111/dech.12017
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/3197
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherWileyen_US
dc.rightsThis is the author-version of the article published online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.111/dech.12017
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectLand graben_US
dc.subjectGlobal land graben_US
dc.subjectRush for landen_US
dc.subjectStateen_US
dc.titleGoverning global land deals: The role of the state in the rush for landen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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