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This book compiles, discusses and explains sixty seven key concepts in land politics in an easy-to-navigate A-Z format. With further reading recommendations included alongside the entries, this innovative and accessible volume will be of great interest to students, scholars, policy practitioners, and political activists.
List of contents
A. Access. Alliances.
C. Class. Climate Change Politics. Climate of Global Land Politics. Climate-smart Land Politics. Commoning. Commons. Critical Agrarian Studies. Customary Land Tenure.
D. Degradation. Digitalization. Diminution. Dispossession.
E. Expropriation.
F. Financialization. Five Rs. Flex Crops and Commodities. Food Sovereignty. Foreignization of Land. Forestland. Formalization. Frontier.
G. Gender. Grabbers. Green Grabbing.
I. Indigenous Peoples' Land Rights.
L. Land Boom. Land Broker. Land Grabbing. Land in Production/Social Reproduction. Land Politics. Land Prospecting. Land Reform. Land Regime. Land Regime Democratization and Regeneration. Land Rights. Land Rush. Land Sovereignty. Land Struggles. Land Tenure Security. Landed Class. Landscape. Large-scale Land Acquisition (LSLA).
M. Market-assisted Land Reform. Minimum Access/Size Ceiling.
N. Non-operational (and Failed) Land Deals. Non-(Re)distributive Reform.
O. Operational Land Deals.
P. Petty Reformism. Pin Prick Land Grabs. Political Economy. Property. Public Lands.
R. Reconcentration. (Re)distributive Reforms. Restitution.
S. Sandwich Strategy. Scarcity. Scholar-activism. Scope (Land Grabbing, Land Rush). Sharing. Social Function of Property. Sparing. Spectacle.
T. Territorialization.
W. Wasteland.
About the author
Saturnino M. Borras Jr. is a Professor of Agrarian Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague and is part of the Erasmus Chairs program of Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He is also an associate at the Transnational Institute (TNI) and a Distinguished Professor at the China Agricultural University in Beijing. He was the Editor-In-Chief of the
Journal of Peasant Studies for 15 years, until 2023. He is the co-editor of
The Oxford Handbook of Land Politics (2025).
Jennifer C. Franco is a researcher at the Transnational Institute (TNI) Myanmar-In-Focus programme, the Netherlands and an Adjunct Professor at the China Agricultural University in Beijing. She is the co-author of
Scholar-Activism and Land Struggles (2023) and co-editor of
The Oxford Handbook of Land Politics (2025).
