Beschreibung:
This collection, composed of eleven chapters based on recent and original research, addresses questions of land control, in particular who is creating new frontiers of land control and how. Focused on various agrarian environments around the world, the contributors focus on the means and mechanisms by which land is enclosed, appropriated, possessed, and grabbed: legally, illegally, or violently.
1. Introduction: New Frontiers of Land Control 2. Conservation Practice as Primitive Accumulation 3. Territorialization, Enclosure and Neoliberalism: Non-State Influence in Struggles over Madagascar's Forests 4. Making Spaces, Making Subjects: Land, Enclosure and Islam in Colonial Malaya 5. Ceasefire Capitalism: Military-Private Partnerships, Resource Concessions, and Military-State Building in the Burma-China Borderlands 6. The Rifle and the Title: Paramilitary Violence, Land Grab and Land Control in Colombia 7. Privatizing the Tzuultaq'a? Private Property and Spiritual Reproduction in Post-War Guatemala 8. Emergent Forest and Private Land Regimes in Java 9. Land Grabs, Land Control, and Southeast Asian Crop Booms 10. Carbon Forestry and Agrarian Change: Access and Land Control in a Mexican Rainforest 11. Fragmented Sovereignty: Land Reform and Dispossession in Laos