Governing Global Land Deals
The Role of the State in the Rush for Land
Over 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. While 'the state' is often invoked as a key player in contemporary land deals, states do not necessarily operate coherently or with one voice. This collection of essays brings clarity and understanding to the entity of 'the state', analyzing government and governance as processes, people and relationships. Focusing on relations of…
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Weitere Autoren: Wolford, Wendy (Hrsg.) / Scoones, Ian (Hrsg.) / Hall, Ruth (Hrsg.) / White, Ben (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-118-68825-0
- EAN: 9781118688250
- Produktnummer: 16382894
- Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 7'752 KB
Über den Autor
Wendy Wolford is the Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Development Sociology at Cornell University. Saturnino M. Borras, Jr. is Associate Professor of Rural Development Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague, The Netherlands. Ruth Hall is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape. Ian Scoones is a Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex and co-director of the ESRC STEPS Centre at Sussex and joint convener of the IDS-hosted Future Agricultures Consortium. Ben White is Emeritus Professor of Rural Sociology at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague, the Netherlands. The editors are co-coordinators of the Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI: ww.iss.nl/ldpi), an international network of scholars doing engaged research on the issue of global land grabbing.
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