Climate change and land: insights from Myanmar
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 129, S. 1-14
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In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 129, S. 1-14
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In: Globalizations, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 161-179
ISSN: 1474-774X
In: Globalizations, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 1-23
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In: Review of African political economy, Band 38, Heft 128, S. 215-234
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In: Third world quarterly, Band 28, Heft 8, S. 1557-1576
ISSN: 1360-2241
In: Globalizations, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 1-11
ISSN: 1474-774X
In: Third world quarterly, Band 36, Heft 3, S. 600-617
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In: Canadian journal of development studies: Revue canadienne d'études du développement, Band 33, Heft 4, S. 402-416
ISSN: 2158-9100
In: Third world quarterly, Band 39, Heft 7, S. 1227-1246
ISSN: 1360-2241
In: Canadian journal of development studies: Revue canadienne d'études du développement, Band 36, Heft 2, S. 147-162
ISSN: 2158-9100
In: Development and change, Band 44, Heft 2, S. 189-210
ISSN: 1467-7660
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.
In: Critical agrarian studies
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In: Critical Agrarian Studies
Climate change is perhaps the greatest threat to humanity today and plays out as a cruel engine of myriad forms of injustice, violence and destruction. The effects of climate change from human-made emissions of greenhouse gases are devastating and accelerating; yet are uncertain and uneven both in terms of geography and socio-economic impacts. Emerging from the dynamics of capitalism since the industrial revolution — as well as industrialisation under state-led socialism — the consequences of climate change are especially profound for the countryside and its inhabitants.
The book interrogates the narratives and strategies that frame climate change and examines the institutionalised responses in agrarian settings, highlighting what exclusions and inclusions result. It explores how different people — in relation to class and other co-constituted axes of social difference such as gender, race, ethnicity, age and occupation — are affected by climate change, as well as the climate adaptation and mitigation responses being implemented in rural areas. The book in turn explores how climate change – and the responses to it - affect processes of social differentiation, trajectories of accumulation and in turn agrarian politics. Finally, the book examines what strategies are required to confront climate change, and the underlying political-economic dynamics that cause it, reflecting on what this means for agrarian struggles across the world.
The 26 chapters in this volume explore how the relationship between capitalism and climate change plays out in the rural world and, in particular, the way agrarian struggles connect with the huge challenge of climate change. Through a huge variety of case studies alongside more conceptual chapters, the book makes the often-missing connection between climate change and critical agrarian studies. The book argues that making the connection between climate and agrarian justice is crucial.
The chapters in this book were originally published in The Journal of Peasant Studies.
In: Third world quarterly, Band 36, Heft 3, S. 431-448
ISSN: 1360-2241
In: Land use policy: the international journal covering all aspects of land use, Band 119, S. 106199
ISSN: 0264-8377