Year: 2016 | Month: December | Volume 7 | Issue 3
Global Land Deals and its Impact
Abstract:
Over the past decade, there has been a massive increase in large-scale land deals, often from public lands to the hands of foreign or domestic investors. Popularly referred to as ‘global land grab’, new land acquisitions are challenging the nature of both governance and government. It is inferred 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, focus is on territory, sovereignty, authority and subjects not as static objects but as relationships in place, property, power and production. Understanding the dynamic nature of these relationships is critical for the highly variable form and content of large-scale land deals in different settings around the world.
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