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Land grabs are a global phenomenon of our times, driven by the ever increasing demands of both global corporations and the governments with which they are allied. But as this powerful and timely book demonstrates, ordinary citizens, small farmers and ordinary citizens around the world are standing up to defend their own with passion and ingenuity, and they are recording successes that are both extraordinary and inspiring. Oliver Tickell, Editor, The Ecologist.
Climate change ravages the earth, while wealthy elites try to grab as much of the worlds diminishing resources as possible. As Vandana Shiva writes, land is life. But land, and the struggle to possess it, is also powercolonial and corporate power, to be sure, but also the power of the dispossessed to rise up and call for an end to the global land grab.
Grabbing Back maps this struggle, bringing together analyses that uncover the politics of cultivation and control. In this unprecedented collection, on-the-ground activists join forces with critically acclaimed scholars to document the commodification and consumption of space, from foreclosed homes to annihilated rainforests, from ecotourism in Sri Lanka to the tar sands of Montana, and to outline the strategies and tactics that might the destruction.
With contributions by Vandana Shiva, Noam Chomsky, Max Rameau, Grace Lee Boggs, Michael Hardt, Ahjamu Umi, Ben Dangl, and many others.
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Part of the reason that knowledge about the current global land grab is so uncertain is the paucity of perspectives and analysis in defining the problem. This book fills the gap admirably. Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved
The acquisition, control, and exploitation of land, as well as the simultaneous dispossession of land-based and peasant communities, is central to the processes of both colonialism and capitalism. As Fanon reminds us, egalitarian governance and stewardship of land is fundamental to the struggle for liberation and self-determination for all oppressed peoples. This makes Grabbing Back a necessary study for anticapitalist and anticolonial movements. Harsha Walia, author of Undoing Border Imperialism
Grab back this sparkling mosaic of essays as a treasure of our new-old knowledge commons. Together these pieces replace dichotomies with dialectics, making explicit the inseparability of land and collective life. Together they restore the vital concept of social ecology in resistance to relentless and increasingly apocalyptic capitalism, with emphasis on its second contradiction: its impossibility on a finite resource base. Maia Ramnath, author of Decolonizing Anarchism
As the forces of thanatos leave no stone unturned in their quest to dominate the entire planet, this anthology provides a much needed antidote. Weaving together accounts from around the world, the authors advocate building grassroots movements aimed at subverting capitals incessant assault on our lives and land.George Katsiaficas, author of Asias Unknown Uprisings
Never perhaps has the land question been so crucial for anti-capitalist movements, as we are witnessing a global process of enclosure that privatizes lands, waters, forests, displacing millions from their homes, and placing monetary gates to what we rightly considered our commonwealth. It is essential then that we understand what motivates this drive and its effects in all their social and spatial dimensions. Grabbing Back takes us through this process, identifying the reasons and actors behind this global land-grab and, most important,...
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Part of the reason that knowledge about the current global land grab is so uncertain is the paucity of perspectives and analysis in defining the problem. This book fills the gap admirably. Think of it as a mix-tape, in which youre led from rural, urban, indigenous, Earth First!, Global North, Global South, policy wonk, insurgent, high theory, and high praxis. Listen for the new voices and the new ideasyoull be humming them for years to come, and youll have heard them here first. Raj Patel , author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
Grab back this sparkling mosaic of essays as a treasure of our new-old knowledge commons. Together these pieces replace dichotomies with dialectics, making explicit the inseparability of land and collective life. Maia Ramnath , author of Decolonizing Anarchism
As the forces of thanatos leave no stone unturned in their quest to dominate the entire planet, this anthology provides a much-needed antidote. Weaving together accounts from around the world, the authors advocate building grassroots movements aimed at subverting capitals incessant assault on our lives and land. George Katsiaficas , author of Asias Unknown Uprisings
Never perhaps has the land question been so crucial for anti-capitalist movements, as we are witnessing a global process of enclosure that privatizes lands, waters, forests, displacing millions from their homes, and placing monetary gates to what we rightly considered our commonwealth. It is essential then that we understand what motivates this drive and its effects in all their social and spatial dimensions. Grabbing Back takes us through this process , identifying the reasons and actors behind this global land grab and, most important, introducing us to the struggles that people are making across the world to resist being evicted from their lands and to reclaim the earth.
Bringing together an impressive group of authors, active in different social movements, it narrates a powerful story that, wherever we are, we will recognize as our own. George Caffentzis , Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa
The acquisition, control, and exploitation of land, as well as the simultaneous dispossession of land-based and peasant communities, is central to the processes of both colonialism and capitalism. As Fanon reminds us, egalitarian governance and stewardship of land is fundamental to the struggle for liberation and self-determination for all oppressed peoples. This makes Grabbing Back a necessary study for anticapitalist and anticolonial movements. Harsha Walia , author of Undoing Border Imperialism
Land grabs are a global phenomenon of our times, driven by the ever-increasing demands of both global corporations and the governments with which they are allied. But as this powerful and timely book demonstrates, small farmers and ordinary citizens around the world are standing up to defend their own with passion and ingenuity, and they are recording successes that are both extraordinary and inspiring. Oliver Tickell , editor of The Ecologist.
Grabbing Back
Essays against
the Global Land Grab
Edited by Alexander Reid Ross
2014 Alexander Reid Ross.
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When the peasant revolts, the student demonstrates, the slum dweller riots, the robber robs, he is reacting to a feeling of insecurity, an atavistic throwback to the territorial imperative, a reaction to the fact that he has lost control of the circumstances of life.
George Jackson
Dedicated to political prisoners around the world.
Javier Sethness Castro
In schema borrowed from bourgeois sexual morality, technique is said to have ravished nature, yet under transformed relations of production it would just as easily be able to assist nature and on this sad Earth help it attain what it perhaps wants.
Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory
As the numerous contributors to Grabbing Back dutifully show, we today confront a dialectical situation whereby the accumulated forces of negation and absurditycapital or, in German critical theorist Herbert Marcuses archetypal illustration, thanatos (the death drive)carry the day and largely determine the course of global affairs, but not without challenge from below . Under conditions of capitalist hegemony, as Andrej Gruba i notes, any attempt at exit from the system necessarily remains partial, with movements toward autonomy being relative rather than absolute. Nonetheless, conscious efforts to resist capitalist depredationthe examples of the EZLN and Black Panther Party, the Common Ground Collective, radical workers, historical jacqueries , and so ondemonstrate, again in Gruba i s words, that place and territory are never completely incorporated, that they can be re-occupied and re-appropriated towards ends that contradict the exigencies of capital altogether. This realization, at once empirical and theoretical, is the very basis for the principle of hope that guides revolutionary thought and actionthat is, taking from scott crow, that our emergency hearts can perhaps through mass-rebellion take down the death-system and so afford humanity the chance collectively to manage its own affairs, bringing liberation that much closer. Plainly, I will say that I share Gruba i s desire for a transition to an anarchist world-system, in place of the brutally authoritarian and ecocidal capitalist system we today confront; with this end in mind, I am especially interested in his concern for strategies of escape, which he takes from James C. Scotts luminous study of the vast highland stateless zone of Southeast Asia, Zomia.
One exit-strategyor, at least, a precursor to such a strategywould be, as Andrew Herod suggests in this volume, to map out geographies of resistance movements to capitalto study and share findings in alternative area studies ( Grubai ), or La Otra Geografa (The Other Geography), as suggested by the neo-Zapatistasand, more importantly, to help them develop rapidly and radically. While certainly there is a place for imagination, creativity, and fictional exploration within this projectconsider Kim Stanley Robinsons Mars trilogy, written in the 1990s, wherein anarchist scientists abandon Earth for Mars, there to terraform it into a habitable planet on which they would build a new feminist and anti-capitalist societyit would seem that solidarity with unborn, nascent, and already-existing anti-systemic groupings in the world should carry greater weight. Consider the case of the Naxalites in central India who represent a radical counter-force to the imperialist devastation wrought on numerous adivasi (indigenous) communities inhabiting lands sought after by rapacious mining companies in the state of Chhattisgarhthe site of what has been termed the largest land grab since Columbus. By directly confronting and subverting the mining companies and the police, military, and paramilitary forces conspiring there to promote developmentthat is to say, the wrecking-ball of society and natureand by building a new, more emancipatory society in the regions liberated from governmental control (particularly in the Dandakaranya Forest, as Arundhati Roy explores in her Walking with the Comrades ) the Naxalite insurgency provides a model whose spirit we should like to reproduce, wherever it is that we may find ourselves.
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