The New Enclosures: Critical Perspectives on Corporate Land Deals
This collection explores the complex dynamics of corporate land deals from a broad agrarian political economy perspective, with a special focus on the implications for property and labour regimes, labour processes and structures of accumulation. This involves looking at ways in which existing patterns of rural social differentiation in terms of class, gender, ethnicity and generation are being shaped by changes in land use and property relations, as well as by the re-organization of production and exchange as rural communities and resources are incorporated into global commodity chains. It goes further than the descriptive what and who questions, in order to understand the how and why of these patterns. It is empirically solid and theoretically sophisticated, making it a robust and knowledge boundary-changing work. Contributors come from various scholarly disciplines. Covering nearly all regions of the world, the collection will be of interest to researchers from various disciplines, policymakers and activists.
The book was originally published as a Special Issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies.
Ben White is Emeritus Professor of Rural Sociology at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague. His research focuses on agrarian change and the anthropology and history of childhood and youth, particularly in Indonesia. He is a founding member of the Land Deal Politics Initiative.
Saturnino M. Borras Jr. is Associate Professor at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague. He is also Adjunct Professor at China Agricultural University and Fellow of the Transnational Institute (TNI) and Food First. He is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Peasant Studies, and is a founding member of the Land Deal Politics Initiative.
Ruth Hall is Associate Professor at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. She coordinates the land theme of the Future Agricultures Consortium, is Reviews Editor of the Journal of Peasant Studies, and is a founding member of the Land Deal Politics Initiative.
Ian Scoones is a Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. He is joint coordinator of the Future Agricultures Consortium and co-director of the STEPS Centre. He is a member of the editorial collective of the Journal of Peasant Studies and a founding member of the Land Deal Politics Initiative.
Wendy Wolford is the Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Development Sociology at Cornell University. She is author of This Land is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil (Duke Press, 2010) and is a member of both the editorial collective of the Journal of Peasant Studies and the Land Deal Politics Initiative.
Critical Agrarian Studies
Series Editor: Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
Critical Agrarian Studies is the new accompanying book series to the Journal of Peasant Studies. It publishes selected special issues of the journal and, occasionally, books that offer major contributions in the field of critical agrarian studies. The book series builds on the long and rich history of the journal and its former accompanying book series, the Library of Peasant Studies (19732008) which had published several important monographs and special-issues-as-books.
Critical Perspectives in Rural Development Studies
Edited by Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
The Politics of Biofuels, Land and Agrarian Change
Edited by Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Philip McMichael and Ian Scoones
New Frontiers of Land Control
Edited by Nancy Lee Peluso and Christian Lund
Outcomes of Post-2000 Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe
Edited by Lionel Cliffe, Jocelyn Alexander, Ben Cousins and Rudo Gaidzanwa
Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature
Edited by James Fairhead, Melissa Leach and Ian Scoones
The New Enclosures: Critical Perspectives on Corporate Land Deals
Edited by Ben White, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones and Wendy Wolford
The New Enclosures: Critical Perspectives on Corporate Land Deals
Edited by
Ben White, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones and Wendy Wolford
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Contents
Ben White, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones and Wendy Wolford
Lorenzo Cotula
Philip McMichael
Shepard Daniel
Kojo Sebastian Amanor
Liz Alden Wily
Philip Woodhouse
Tom Lavers
Ruth Hall
Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Jennifer C. Franco, Sergio Gmez, Cristbal Kay and Max Spoor
Srgio Sauer and Sergio Pereira Leite
Oane Visser, Natalia Mamonova and Max Spoor
Michael Levien
Shelley Feldman and Charles Geisler
Julia, with Ben White
Miles Kenney-Lazar
Rebecca Smalley and Esteve Corbera
Thomas Sikor
The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of Peasant Studies, volume 39, issue 3-4 (July-October 2012). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals
Ben White, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones and Wendy Wolford
Journal of Peasant Studies, volume 39, issue 3-4 (July-October 2012) pp. 619-648
Chapter 2
The international political economy of the global land rush: A critical appraisal of trends, scale, geography and drivers
