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This edited volume draws together global research on dispossession in order to revisit and reformulate the Marxist concept of primitive accumulation
as well as to explore changing forms of resistance to capitalist expansion.
The chapters originally published as a special issue in
City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action.
List of contents
1. Introduction: ENCLOSURES AND DISCONTENTS: PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION AND RESISTANCE UNDER GLOBALISED CAPITAL
Lisa Tilley, Ashok Kumar and Thomas Cowan 2. THE GOLDEN 'SALTO MORTALE' IN THE ERA OF CRISIS: PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION AND LOCAL AND URBAN STRUGGLE IN THE CASE OF SKOURIES GOLD MINING IN GREECE
Charalampos Tsavdaroglou, Konstantinos Petrakos and Vasiliki Makrygianni 3. FARMING THE FRONT LINE: GAZA'S ACTIVIST FARMERS IN THE NO GO ZONES
Ron J. Smith and Martin Isleem 4. LUDDITES IN THE CONGO?: ANALYZING VIOLENT RESPONSES TO THE EXPANSION OF INDUSTRIAL MINING AMIDST MILITARIZATION
Judith Verweijen 5. THE SMELL OF BLOOD: ACCUMULATION BY DISPOSSESSION, RESISTANCE AND THE LANGUAGE OF POPULIST UPRISING IN SYRIA
Philip Proudfoot 6. PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION IN INDIGENOUS MEXICO: THE CONTESTED TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE MAYA
SOLAR OF YUCATÁN
Ana Julia Cabrera Pacheco
About the author
Lisa Tilley is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of Politics and International Relations. Previously she was an Erasmus Mundus GEM Joint Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, UK
Ashok Kumar is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and a member of faculty at Queen Mary, University of London. He received his DPhil from Oxford University in 2015 and sits on the editorial board of City, Historical Materialism, and Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.
Tom Cowan is an ESRC-funded doctoral candidate at the department of Geography, King's College London.
Summary
This edited volume draws together global research on dispossession in order to revisit and reformulate the Marxist concept of primitive accumulation as well as to explore changing forms of resistance to capitalist expansion. The chapters originally published as a special issue in City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action.
