Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing.

• Superior document: Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks Series
• Author: Neef, Andreas.
• TeilnehmendeR: Ngin, Chanrith.; Moreda, Tsegaye.; Mollett, Sharlene.
• Place / Publishing House: Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (513 pages)

This handbook provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of global land and resource grabbing.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Boxes -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- References -- 1. Global Land and Resource Grabbing: An Introduction -- Introduction: The Global Rush for Land and Natural Resources in the 21st Century -- Actors Driving the Global Land and Resource Rush -- Discourses and Narratives around Land and Resource Grabbing -- Development Discourses -- Crisis Narratives -- Terra Nullius or the Myth of Empty Lands -- Conservation Discourses -- Practices of Dispossession and Social Impacts of Land and Resource Grabbing -- Contributions to This Handbook -- References -- 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 -- Introduction -- Dignity Takings and Land Grabbing -- The Violence of the Doctrine of Discovery and Contemporary Land Grabs -- Neocolonialism -- Empty Land and Productive Use Thesis -- Contiguous Land in Land Grabbing -- Conclusion -- References -- 3. Riro Whenua Atu, Hoki Whenua Mai: Land Grabbing in British Settler States and Contested Land Restitution to Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand -- Introduction -- Dispossessing Indigenous Peoples -- Canada -- United States -- Australia -- Dispossessing Māori -- Attempts at Land Restitution to Māori - Repossessions -- Alternatives to Repossessions -- International Influences -- Constitutional Transformation -- Conclusion -- References -- 4. Ruptures and Continuities: How the Global Land "Rush" (Re)produces Slow Violence on Latin America's Resource Frontiers -- Introduction -- Rethinking the Rush -- A Land Rush in Four Acts -- Grabbing as a Racialized Logic of Dispossession -- Conclusion: Colonial Continuities -- Notes -- References.

Part 2: Enabling Mechanisms and Governance of Land and Resource Grabbing -- 5. Capture Land: Anti-squatting Policy as Processual Land Grab in Jamaica -- Introduction -- Anti-squatting Policy as a Processual Land Grab -- A History of the Present -- Post-emancipation Land Policy -- Postcoloniality and the Land Question -- Plant It Up, 1978 -- Remix: Squatting as Crime, as Corruption -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6. The Rule of Technocrats?: Historical Conditions for a Land Grab in Northern Guatemala -- Introduction -- Land Administration as Precursor to Land Grab in Northern Guatemala -- Making Property Rights, Erasing Land Claims -- When a Land Market Became the Answer to Guatemala's Agrarian Problem -- Powers of the Technical -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Notes -- References -- 7. Governing Land Concessions in Laos -- Introduction -- Governing Land Grabbing -- Governmental Reforms -- State-Society Relations -- Transnational Governance -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 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 -- Introduction -- Land Grabbing or Development Opportunity? -- Enclosures and the Sugar Frontier -- The Socio-ecological Implications of Contracting Sugarcane Farming -- Resistance and Contentious Politics -- Conclusion -- References -- 9. Conceptualizing Contract Farming in the Global Land Grabbing Debate -- Introduction -- Contract Farming in the Land Grab Literature -- Contract Farming as a Form of Land Grabbing -- Contract Farming as an Inclusive Alternative -- Contract Farming as a Post-grab Production System -- Beyond Grabbing: Contract Farming as a Form of Land Control -- Contract Farming and Land: Recentering Agrarian Questions -- Notes -- References -- 10. GMOs, the Land Grab, and Epistemological Enclosures.

Introduction -- Genetically Modified Organisms -- Enclosures and the Geopolitics of Knowledge -- Sites of Multiple Enclosures -- Epistemological Enclosures: Seeds and Place-Based Knowledges -- Resistance -- Concluding Remarks -- Acknowledgments -- Note -- References -- Part 4: Taking Land for Conservation, Eco-Tourism, Renewable Energy and Carbon Markets -- 11. Green Territoriality and Resource Extraction in Cambodia -- Introduction -- Green Territorialization: State-Making and Environmental Enclosures -- Forests in the Twentieth Century -- Establishing Environmental Governance in Cambodia (1990s-2000s) -- Contemporary Resource Grabbing and Green Territorialisation -- Resource Control and Extraction under the Guise of Green Territorialisation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 12. Towards Climate-Smart Land Policy: Land Grabbing under a Changing Political Landscape in Mozambique -- Introduction -- Theoretical Lens and Literature Review -- Land Grabbing and "the Greener" New Scramble for Resources -- Climate Change and Land Grabbing: Towards Climate Smart Land Politics -- Role of the State and Institutions -- Land Grabbing and Political Landscape in Mozambique -- Context and Land Politics -- Changing Political Landscape towards Climate-Smart Land Use: Agricultural Policy towards Commodification and Financialization -- PEDSA and ProSAVANA -- SUSTENTA: Promoting Rural Financialization (Land as Collateral) -- Programa Terra Segura -- Green Agendas, Policy-Making, and Land Grabbing under Climate Change Narratives -- Land Policy Revision: Towards a More Business-Friendly Land Law -- Building a Policy Landscape Facilitating Land Grabbing: The Case of Zambézia Province -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- Notes -- References -- 13. Renewables Grabbing: Land and Resource Appropriations in the Global Energy Transition -- Introduction.

Changing Energy Frontiers -- Resource Grabbing and Conflict at the Renewable Energy Frontiers -- Large-Scale Biofuels -- Hydropower -- Wind Power -- Large-Scale Solar Power -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 14. Geospatial Technologies in Tourism Land and Resource Grabs: Evidence from Guatemala's Protected Areas -- Introduction -- Background: Maya Biosphere Reserve -- Reserve Forest Use and Management -- Contested Conservation Landscapes -- Geospatial Technologies and Tourism Land and Resource Grabbing in the Maya Biosphere Reserve -- Geospatial Knowledges and the Production of Touristic Spaces -- Threat Narratives and Geospatial Technologies -- Securitization Logics and Practices in Tourism Land Grabbing -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 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 -- Introduction -- The Difficulties of Resource Extraction Amid Climate Catastrophes -- Neglect of the Climate Crisis in Arctic Government Policies -- Market and Social Responses to Worsening Extraction Possibilities -- Arctic Social Scientific Contributions to Global Land Grabbing Studies -- Concluding Remarks -- Note -- References -- 16. Territorial Control, Dispossession and Resistance: The Political Economy of Large-Scale Mining in Asia -- Introduction -- The Land and Large-Scale Mining Nexus in Asia: A Political Economy Framing -- Enabling Intermediate Practices of Accumulation and Dispossession, and Mining-Specific Repertoires of Resistance -- Territorial Control, Dispossession and Resistance: The Case of Mongolia -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 17. Phosphate Mining in Distant Places: The Dark Side of New Zealand's Agricultural Economic Success -- Introduction.

The Critical Role of Phosphate in Agriculture -- Pacific Imperialism - The Case of Banaba Island -- Continuing Imperialism - The Case Study of Western Sahara Phosphate and Morocco -- Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- Part 6: Blue Grabbing: The Global Rush for Freshwater and Marine Resources -- 18. Cases of Water Grabbing in Waterscape Developments in India -- Introduction -- Scholarship on Water Grabbing -- Characteristics of Water Grabbing -- Groundwater Extraction -- Imported Water -- Designation and Delineation of the Waterbodies -- Desilting, Dredging, and Deepening -- Wastewater -- Life in/on Water -- Drainage Courses -- Stepwells and Borewells -- Value Grabbing -- Discussion and Ways Forward -- Notes -- References -- 19. The Historical Assembly of Oceania's Deep-Sea Mining Frontier -- Introduction -- Liminality, Ontological Politics and the Making of Deep-sea Mineral Resources -- DSM in the Pacific: The Current State of Play -- Phase One: Polymetallic Nodules in the International Seabed Almost Become Resources -- Phase Two: Resource-making Efforts Shift to Seafloor Massive Sulphides within National Jurisdictions -- Phase Three: The Return to Nodules in the Area -- Conclusion -- References -- 20. Resource Grabbing and the Blue Commons: The Evolution of Institutions in Scallop Production in Sechura Bay, Peru -- Introduction -- The IADF and Marine Privatization -- Method -- Results: The Evolution of Institutional Arrangements in Relation to Sea Bottom Access -- Understanding the Evolution Towards De Facto Enclosure -- Understanding the Establishment of a Formal Common Property Regime -- Understanding the Evolution of De Facto Private Property Rights -- Understanding the Establishment of a Formal Private Property Regime -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References.

21. Coastal Grabbing by Extractive Industries in the South Pacific: The Case of Fiji.