The politics of evidence: A response to Rulli and D'Odorico

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dc.contributor.authorScoones, Ian
dc.contributor.authorHall, Ruth
dc.contributor.authorBorras Jr., Saturnino M.
dc.contributor.authorWhite, Ben
dc.contributor.authorWolford, Wendy
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-08T09:38:30Z
dc.date.available2017-06-08T09:38:30Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractWe welcome Rulli and D’Odorico’s response to our introduction to the Journal for Peasant Studies (JPS) Forum on Global Land Grabbing(Scoones etal.2013) in which we discussed the ‘literature rush’ that has accompanied the global ‘land rush’. We outlined a series of concerns with the data being used in this literature – concerns both with the data itself and with its uncritical deployment in popular and academic studies. We called for a second phase of land grab research that would ground abstract calculations of imprecise global averages in favour of concrete, situated and transparent research that could address critical questions such as what is actually happening, who is winning and losing, and why. With our discussion of the ‘politics of evidence’ we called for research that would extend beyond the fixation on ‘killer facts’–the headline-grabbing numbers. Instead, ground-truthing and generating traceable datasets are essential.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationScoones, I. et al. (2013). The politics of evidence: A response to Rulli and D'Odorico. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 40 (5): 911-912en_US
dc.identifier.issn0306-6150
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/2937
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2013.853045
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledge Taylor Francis Groupen_US
dc.rightsPublisher retains copyright. Authors may archive the published version in their Institutional Repository.
dc.subjectThe politics of evidenceen_US
dc.subjectRulli and D'Odoricoen_US
dc.titleThe politics of evidence: A response to Rulli and D'Odoricoen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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