The Journal of Peasant Studies· 2012Q1
The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals
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This collection critically examines large-scale corporate land deals using agrarian political economy, revealing complex implications for property, labor, and accumulation structures.
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Key points
- Analyzes large-scale land deals through agrarian political economy.
- Contrasts historical and contemporary land grabs.
- Unpacks diverse causes and six overlapping mechanisms of land grabbing.
- Critiques crisis narratives and 'idle land' justifications.
- Examines impacts on property, labor, inclusion/exclusion, and resistance.
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Abstract
The contributions to this collection use the tools of agrarian political economy to explore the rapid growth and complex dynamics of large-scale land deals in recent years, with a special focus on the implications of big land deals for property and labour regimes, labour processes and structures of accumulation. The first part of this introductory essay examines the implications of this agrarian political economy perspective. First we explore the continuities and contrasts between historical and contemporary land grabs, before examining the core underlying debate around large- versus small-scale farming futures. Next, we unpack the diverse contexts and causes of land grabbing today, highlighting six overlapping mechanisms. The following section turns to assessing the crisis narratives that frame the justifications for land deals, and the flaws in the argument around there being excess, empty or idle land available. Next the paper turns to an examination of the impacts of land deals, and the processes of inclusion and exclusion at play, before looking at patterns of resistance and constructions of alternatives. The final section introduces the papers in the collection.
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