Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xxix, 482 pp.
Contains tables, figures, index
Series: Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
ISBN 978-0-367-53204-8 (pbk); 978-1-003-08091-6 (ebook)
"Global land and resource grabbing has become an increasingly prominent topic in academic circles, among development practitioners, human rights advocates, and in policy arenas. The Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing sustains this intellectual momentum by advancing methodological, theoretical and empirical insights. It presents and discusses resource grabbing research in a holistic manner by addressing how the rush for land and other natural resources, including water, forests and minerals, is intertwined with agriculture, mining, tourism, energy, biodiversity conservation, climate change, carbon markets, and conflict. The handbook is truly global and interdisciplinary, with case studies from the Global South and Global North, and chapter contributions from practitioners, activists and academics, with emerging and Indigenous authors featuring strongly across the chapters." (Publisher description)
1 Global Land and Resource Grabbing: An Introduction / Andreas Neef, Chanrith Ngin, Tsegaye Moreda, and Sharlene Mollett, 1
PART 1: HISTORICAL TRAJECTORIES OF LAND AND RESOURCE GRABBING
2 From the Colonial Doctrine of Discovery to Contemporary Land Grabs: 'Dignity Taking' against the Poor / Thembela Kepe, 21
3 Riro Whenua Atu, Hoki Whenua Mai: Land Grabbing in British Settler States and Contested Land Restitution to Maori in Aotearoa New Zealand / Margaret Mutu, 33
4 Ruptures and Continuities: How the Global Land "Rush" (Re) produces Slow Violence on Latin America's Resource Frontiers / Joel E. Correia, 47
PART 2: ENABLING MECHANISMS AND GOVERNANCE OF LAND AND RESOURCE GRABBING
5 Capture Land: Anti-squatting Policy as Processual Land Grab in Jamaica / Rachel Goffe, 65
6 The Rule of Technocrats? Historical Conditions for a Land Grab in Northern Guatemala / Kevin A. Gould, 81
7 Governing Land Concessions in Laos / Miles Kenney-Lazar, Oliver Schönweger, Peter Messerli, and Vong Nanhthavong, 96
PART 3: LARGE-SCALE LAND ACQUISITIONS FOR FOOD, FEED AND BIOFUELS
8 Sugar Agro-Extractivism: Land Enclosures, Contract Farming and the Sugar Frontier in Africa / Giuliano Martiniello, 113
9 Conceptualizing Contract Farming in the Global Land Grabbing Debate / Mark Vicol and Helena Pérez Niño, 128
10 GMOs, the Land Grab, and Epistemological Enclosures / Lindsay Naylor, 143
PART 4: TAKING LAND FOR CONSERVATION, ECO-TOURISM, RENEWABLE ENERGY AND CARBON MARKETS
11 Green Territoriality and Resource Extraction in Cambodia / Sarah Milne, Tim Frewer, and Sango Mahanty, 159
12 Towards Climate-Smart Land Policy: Land Grabbing under a Changing Political Landscape in Mozambique / Natacha Bruna and Aires A. Mbanze, 173
13 Renewables Grabbing: Land and Resource Appropriations in the Global Energy Transition / Arnim Scheidel, Alevgul H. Sorman, Sofia Avila, Daniela Del Bene, and Jonas Ott, 189
14 Geospatial Technologies in Tourism Land and Resource Grabs: Evidence from Guatemala's Protected Areas / Laura Aileen Sauls and Jennifer A. Devine, 205
PART 5: LAND GRABBING BY EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES: FOSSIL FUELS, MINERALS AND METALS
15 Arctic Resource Extraction in the Context of Climate Crises and Ecological Collapses / Markus Kröger, 223
16 Territorial Control, Dispossession and Resistance: The Political Economy of Large-Scale Mining in Asia / Pascale Hatcher and Etienne Roy Grégoire, 234
17 Phosphate Mining in Distant Places: The Dark Side of New Zealand's Agricultural Economic Success / Catherine Alexander, Katerina Teaiwa, and Andreas Neef, 249
PART 6: BLUE GRABBING: THE GLOBAL RUSH FOR FRESHWATER AND MARINE RESOURCES
18 Cases of Water Grabbing in Waterscape Developments in India / Mansee Bal Bhargava, 267
19 The Historical Assembly of Oceania's Deep-Sea Mining Frontier / Oliver Lilford and Matthew G. Allen, 282
20 Resource Grabbing and the Blue Commons: The Evolution of Institutions in Scallop Production in Sechura Bay, Peru / Achim Schlüter, Lotta Clara Kluger, María Garteizgogeascoa, and Gerardo Damonte, 300
21 Coastal Grabbing by Extractive Industries in the South Pacific: The Case of Fiji / Glenn Finau, Renata Varea, Rufino Varea, Sivendra Michael, and Andreas Neef, 318
PART 7: LAND GRABS FOR LARGE INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS
22 Corridors of Connectivity and the Infrastructural Land Rush in Laos / Jessica DiCarlo and Kearrin Sims, 333
23 Large Infrastructure Projects and Cascading Land Grabs: The Case of Northern Kenya / Evelyne Atieno Owino, Kennedy Mkutu, and Charis Enns, 345
24 The Great 'Anti-Politics' Progress Machine: Mega-Infrastructure Projects, Disenchanted Institutional Change and Dramas of Grabbed Commons / Tobias Haller and Samuel Weissman, 358
PART 8: URBAN LAND GRABS AND SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONES
25 Urban Land Grabs: An Overview of the Issues / Kei Otsuki, Murtah Shannon, Griet Steel, and Femke van Noorloos, 375
26 History and Contemporary Displacement in Suva's Informal Settlements / Eberhard Weber, Camari Koto, Andreas Kopf, Maelin Pickering-Bhagwan, Asenaca Nawaqalevu, Nicholas Halter, and Koini Vamosi, 386
27 Transnational NGO Advocacy to Address Land Grabbing Injustices: The Case of the Thilawa Special Economic Zone in Myanmar / Setsuko Matsuzawa, 401
PART 9: LAND AND RESOURCE GRABBING: RESISTANCE, RESTITUTION AND REMEDIES
28 After the Rubber Boom: A Cautionary Tale from Southern Laos and Northeastern Cambodia / Ian G. Baird, 417
29 Gender and Dispossession in India: Dynamics of Women's Participation in Anti-Land Grabbing Struggles / Saba Joshi, 430
30 The Role of Emotions in Resistance Movements against Land and Resource Grabs: New Evidence from Cambodia / Alice Beban and Sochanny Hak, 444
31 Filling Gaps in International Human Rights Law to Address Global Land and Resource Grabbing: Extraterritorial Human Rights Law Obligations of States and the Rights of Future Generations / Fons Coomans, Rolf Künnemann, and Andreas Neef, 459
PART 1: HISTORICAL TRAJECTORIES OF LAND AND RESOURCE GRABBING
2 From the Colonial Doctrine of Discovery to Contemporary Land Grabs: 'Dignity Taking' against the Poor / Thembela Kepe, 21
3 Riro Whenua Atu, Hoki Whenua Mai: Land Grabbing in British Settler States and Contested Land Restitution to Maori in Aotearoa New Zealand / Margaret Mutu, 33
4 Ruptures and Continuities: How the Global Land "Rush" (Re) produces Slow Violence on Latin America's Resource Frontiers / Joel E. Correia, 47
PART 2: ENABLING MECHANISMS AND GOVERNANCE OF LAND AND RESOURCE GRABBING
5 Capture Land: Anti-squatting Policy as Processual Land Grab in Jamaica / Rachel Goffe, 65
6 The Rule of Technocrats? Historical Conditions for a Land Grab in Northern Guatemala / Kevin A. Gould, 81
7 Governing Land Concessions in Laos / Miles Kenney-Lazar, Oliver Schönweger, Peter Messerli, and Vong Nanhthavong, 96
PART 3: LARGE-SCALE LAND ACQUISITIONS FOR FOOD, FEED AND BIOFUELS
8 Sugar Agro-Extractivism: Land Enclosures, Contract Farming and the Sugar Frontier in Africa / Giuliano Martiniello, 113
9 Conceptualizing Contract Farming in the Global Land Grabbing Debate / Mark Vicol and Helena Pérez Niño, 128
10 GMOs, the Land Grab, and Epistemological Enclosures / Lindsay Naylor, 143
PART 4: TAKING LAND FOR CONSERVATION, ECO-TOURISM, RENEWABLE ENERGY AND CARBON MARKETS
11 Green Territoriality and Resource Extraction in Cambodia / Sarah Milne, Tim Frewer, and Sango Mahanty, 159
12 Towards Climate-Smart Land Policy: Land Grabbing under a Changing Political Landscape in Mozambique / Natacha Bruna and Aires A. Mbanze, 173
13 Renewables Grabbing: Land and Resource Appropriations in the Global Energy Transition / Arnim Scheidel, Alevgul H. Sorman, Sofia Avila, Daniela Del Bene, and Jonas Ott, 189
14 Geospatial Technologies in Tourism Land and Resource Grabs: Evidence from Guatemala's Protected Areas / Laura Aileen Sauls and Jennifer A. Devine, 205
PART 5: LAND GRABBING BY EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES: FOSSIL FUELS, MINERALS AND METALS
15 Arctic Resource Extraction in the Context of Climate Crises and Ecological Collapses / Markus Kröger, 223
16 Territorial Control, Dispossession and Resistance: The Political Economy of Large-Scale Mining in Asia / Pascale Hatcher and Etienne Roy Grégoire, 234
17 Phosphate Mining in Distant Places: The Dark Side of New Zealand's Agricultural Economic Success / Catherine Alexander, Katerina Teaiwa, and Andreas Neef, 249
PART 6: BLUE GRABBING: THE GLOBAL RUSH FOR FRESHWATER AND MARINE RESOURCES
18 Cases of Water Grabbing in Waterscape Developments in India / Mansee Bal Bhargava, 267
19 The Historical Assembly of Oceania's Deep-Sea Mining Frontier / Oliver Lilford and Matthew G. Allen, 282
20 Resource Grabbing and the Blue Commons: The Evolution of Institutions in Scallop Production in Sechura Bay, Peru / Achim Schlüter, Lotta Clara Kluger, María Garteizgogeascoa, and Gerardo Damonte, 300
21 Coastal Grabbing by Extractive Industries in the South Pacific: The Case of Fiji / Glenn Finau, Renata Varea, Rufino Varea, Sivendra Michael, and Andreas Neef, 318
PART 7: LAND GRABS FOR LARGE INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS
22 Corridors of Connectivity and the Infrastructural Land Rush in Laos / Jessica DiCarlo and Kearrin Sims, 333
23 Large Infrastructure Projects and Cascading Land Grabs: The Case of Northern Kenya / Evelyne Atieno Owino, Kennedy Mkutu, and Charis Enns, 345
24 The Great 'Anti-Politics' Progress Machine: Mega-Infrastructure Projects, Disenchanted Institutional Change and Dramas of Grabbed Commons / Tobias Haller and Samuel Weissman, 358
PART 8: URBAN LAND GRABS AND SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONES
25 Urban Land Grabs: An Overview of the Issues / Kei Otsuki, Murtah Shannon, Griet Steel, and Femke van Noorloos, 375
26 History and Contemporary Displacement in Suva's Informal Settlements / Eberhard Weber, Camari Koto, Andreas Kopf, Maelin Pickering-Bhagwan, Asenaca Nawaqalevu, Nicholas Halter, and Koini Vamosi, 386
27 Transnational NGO Advocacy to Address Land Grabbing Injustices: The Case of the Thilawa Special Economic Zone in Myanmar / Setsuko Matsuzawa, 401
PART 9: LAND AND RESOURCE GRABBING: RESISTANCE, RESTITUTION AND REMEDIES
28 After the Rubber Boom: A Cautionary Tale from Southern Laos and Northeastern Cambodia / Ian G. Baird, 417
29 Gender and Dispossession in India: Dynamics of Women's Participation in Anti-Land Grabbing Struggles / Saba Joshi, 430
30 The Role of Emotions in Resistance Movements against Land and Resource Grabs: New Evidence from Cambodia / Alice Beban and Sochanny Hak, 444
31 Filling Gaps in International Human Rights Law to Address Global Land and Resource Grabbing: Extraterritorial Human Rights Law Obligations of States and the Rights of Future Generations / Fons Coomans, Rolf Künnemann, and Andreas Neef, 459
