People, Power, and Land: New Enclosures on a Global Scale

A global land rush is aggressively underway. It is reinventing frontier narratives wherever farmland, rangeland, and forestland appear “underutilized,” particularly in the Global South. Though the means and motives of these acquisitions are diverse, the lens of “new enclosures” lends itself to focus...

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Published inRural sociology Vol. 79; no. 1; pp. 28 - 33
Main Authors Geisler, Charles, Makki, Fouad
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hoboken, NJ Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.03.2014
Wiley
Subjects
Agricultural land
Enclosures
Farming
Globalization
Intervention
Land rights
Power
Rangelands
Rights
Rural and urban sociology
Rural sociology
Sociology
Southern Hemisphere
Land right
Enclosure
Global society
Power
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Summary:A global land rush is aggressively underway. It is reinventing frontier narratives wherever farmland, rangeland, and forestland appear “underutilized,” particularly in the Global South. Though the means and motives of these acquisitions are diverse, the lens of “new enclosures” lends itself to focusing on their similarities. New enclosures surpass the enclosures of bygone centuries in scale and speed and in the plethora of resources they reach. Sociological interventions, both theoretical and applied, are needed to contextualize and concretize this burgeoning alienation of land rights and power contingencies across communities and continents.
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ISSN:0036-0112
1549-0831
DOI:10.1111/ruso.12030