{"product_id":"global-land-grabbing-and-political-reactions-from-below-9780367234928","title":"Global Land Grabbing and Political Reactions 'from Below'","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen the 2007-2008 food and financial crises triggered a global wave of land grabbing, scholars, activists and policy practitioners assumed that this would be met with massive peasant resistance. As empirical evidence accumulated, however, it became clear that political reactions 'from below' to land grabbing were quite varied and complex. Violent resistance, outright expulsions, everyday 'weapons of the weak' and demands for better terms of incorporation into land deals were among the outcomes that emerged. Readers of this collection will encounter a multinational group of scholars who use the tools of social movements theory and critical agrarian studies to examine cases from Argentina, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Colombia, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Uganda, Mali, Ukraine, India, and Laos, as well as the Rio +20 Sustainable Development Conference. Initiatives 'from below' in response to land deals have involved local and transnational alliances and the use of legal and extra-legal methods, and have brought victories and defeats. This book was first published as a special issue of \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Peasant Studies.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marc Edelman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/14\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 444\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.69h x 6.85w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367234928\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarc Edelman\u003c\/strong\u003e is professor of anthropology at Hunter College, USA, and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA. His books include The \u003cem\u003elogic of the latifundio\u003c\/em\u003e (1992), \u003cem\u003ePeasants against globalization\u003c\/em\u003e (1999), \u003cem\u003eThe anthropology of development and globalization\u003c\/em\u003e (co-edited 2005), \u003cem\u003e Social democracy in the global periphery\u003c\/em\u003e (co-authored 2007), \u003cem\u003eTransnational agrarian movements confronting globalization\u003c\/em\u003e (co-edited 2008), and \u003cem\u003eGlobal land grabs: history, theory and method\u003c\/em\u003e (co-edited 2015).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRuth Hall\u003c\/strong\u003e is an associate professor at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and holds a DPhil in politics from the University of Oxford, UL. Her research focuses on land and agrarian reform in South Africa, and she also does research on land rights, agricultural commercialization and 'land grabbing' in Africa. She is a founding member and co-convenor of the Land Deal Politics Initiative and the BRICS Initiative in Critical Agrarian Studies, and is the coordinator of the Future Agricultures Consortium's work on land in Africa and coordinator of its regional hub for Southern Africa. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSaturnino M. Borras Jr.\u003c\/strong\u003e is a professor of agrarian studies at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague, the Netherlands, an adjunct professor at China Agricultural University in Beijing, and a fellow of the Amsterdam-based Transnational Institute (TNI) and of the California- based Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First). He is a founding member and co-convenor of the Land Deal Politics Initiative. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIan Scoones\u003c\/strong\u003e is a professorial fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK, and Director of the ESRC STEPS Centre, UK. He works on land, agricultural and agrarian and environmental change in Africa. He is a founding member and co-convenor of the Land Deal Politics Initiative. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBen White\u003c\/strong\u003e is an emeritus professor of rural sociology at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague, the Netherlands. His research has focused mainly on processes of agrarian change and the anthropology and history of childhood and youth. He has been engaged in research on these issues in Indonesia since the early 1970s. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWendy Wolford\u003c\/strong\u003e is Polson Professor of Development Sociology at Cornell University, USA. Her research interests include the political economy of development, social movements, land distribution, agricultural knowledge and the politics of land management. She is a founding member and co-convenor of the Land Deal Politics Initiative and a member of the editorial collective of the Journal of Peasant Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43190233366643,"sku":"9.78037E+12","price":95.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_5a8d6b58-2f7e-44db-8db7-a98b28de9dd4.jpg?v=1752320251","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/global-land-grabbing-and-political-reactions-from-below-9780367234928","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}