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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
social sciences
Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land
Development and Change, Volume 44, No. 2, Year 2013
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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. 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. © 2013 International Institute of Social Studies.
Authors & Co-Authors
Wolford, Wendy
United States, Ithaca
Cornell University
Borras, Saturnino M.
Netherlands, The Hague
International Institute of Social Studies
Hall, Ruth
South Africa, Bellville
University of the Western Cape
Scoones, Ian C.
United Kingdom, Brighton
Institute of Development Studies, Brighton
White, Ben
Netherlands, The Hague
International Institute of Social Studies
Statistics
Citations: 441
Authors: 5
Affiliations: 4
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1111/dech.12017
ISSN:
0012155X
Research Areas
Health System And Policy