Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land

List of Contributors vii 1 Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land 1 Wendy Wolford, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones and Ben White 2 State Involvement, Land Grabbing and Counter-Insurgency in Colombia 23 Jacobo Grajales 3 Road Mapping: Megaprojects and Land Grabs in the Northern Guatemalan Lowlands 45 Liza Grandia 4 Land Regularization in Brazil and the Global Land Grab 71 Gustavo de L.T. Oliveira 5 Negotiating Environmental Sovereignty in Costa Rica 93 Dana J. Graef 6 Building the Politics Machine: Tools for Resolving the Global Land Grab 117 Michael B. Dwyer 7 Indirect Dispossession: Domestic Power Imbalances and Foreign Access to Land in Mozambique 141 Madeleine Fairbairn 8 Competition over Authority and Access: International Land Deals in Madagascar 163 Perrine Burnod, Mathilde Gingembre and Rivo Andrianirina Ratsialonana 9 Regimes of Dispossession: From Steel Towns to Special Economic Zones 185 Michael Levien 10 The Political Construction of Wasteland: Governmentality, Land Acquisition and Social Inequality in South India 211 Jennifer Baka 11 Chinese Land-Based Interventions in Senegal 231 Lila Buckley 12 Identity, Territory and Land Conflict in Brazil 253 LaShandra Sullivan Index 275

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