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Access to land, in all its multiple meanings, is necessarily diverse, complex, and contentious, and facilitating and maintaining such access constitutes a mosaic of social relations and institutional instruments, rather than the minimalist and simplistic reduction of land to land property, that in turn tends to be interpreted always as individual private property.
The Oxford Handbook of Land Politics offers heterodox analytical tools to help the reader make sense of the complexity of the politics of land.
List of contents
- About the Volume Editors
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Ian Scoones
- Land and Social Life
- Saturnino M. Borras Jr. and Jennifer C. Franco
- 1. Marxism(s) and the Politics of Land
- Henry Bernstein
- 2. Land in World-Ecology Perspectives
- Raj Patel
- 3. Tracing the Land in Dependency and World-Systems Theories
- Max Ajl
- 4. Land in the Chayanovian Tradition
- Jan Douwe van der Ploeg
- 5. Land and Ecosocialism: In Defense of the Commons
- Hannah Holleman
- 6. Land in the Anarchist Tradition
- Andrej Grubacic, Julien-François Gerber, and Andro Rilovic
- 7. Land from Poststructuralist/Postdevelopment Perspectives
- Laura Gutierrez-Escobar
- 8. Land in Food Regimes
- Philip McMichael
- 9. A Political Ecology of Financialization and Farmland Control
- S. Ryan Isakson
- 10. The politics of land in a digital world
- Alistair Fraser
- 11. Deep Explanation of Climate-Related Crises: Access Failure
- Jesse Ribot
- 12. Agrarian Justice and Environmental Justice
- Joan Martinez-Alier
- 13. Socioecological Relations in Land Politics: An Assemblage Perspective
- Marvin Joseph F. Montefrio
- 14. Land, Industrial Livestock, and Interspecies Relations: The Pursuit of Scale and the Deceits of Productivity
- Tony Weis
- 15. Land and Agroecology: Interpenetrating Theses
- John Vandermeer and Ivette Perfecto
- 16. Beyond Land as Property: A Feminist Perspective
- Diana Ojeda
- 17. Land, Social Reproduction, and Agrarian Change
- Ben Cousins
- 18. Land Alienation, Proletarianization, and Changing Labor Market Regimes in Southern Africa
- Walter Chambati
- 19. Land Politics and Human Mobilities: Using the Land-Mobility Nexus as an Analytical Lens
- Kei Otsuki and Annelies Zoomers
- 20. Land for Livelihoods: Urban Agriculture and the Agrarian Question in the 21st Century
- Ricardo Jacobs
- 21. Contract Farming, Agribusiness, and Land in Africa: Empowering Farmers or Appropriating Resources and Value?
- Kojo S. Amanor
- 22. Public Authority, Property, and Citizenship: What We Talk about When We Talk about Land
- Christian Lund
- 23. Land-Making as State-Making
- Nikita Sud
- 24. State, Land, and Citizenship
- Andrew Ofstehage and Wendy Wolford
- 25. Land in Violent Conflict Studies
- Jacobo Grajales and Jean-Pierre Chauveau
- 26. Struggles over Land under Customary Tenure in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa
- Pauline E. Peters
- 27. Tourism Troubles: The Intimate and Embodied Geographies of Land Grabbing in Panama
- Sharlene Mollett
- 28. Ethnic Politics and Land Grabbing
- Tsegaye Moreda
- 29. Ethnic Politics and Land
- Nguyet Bao Dang, Doi Ra, Lorenza Arango, Moges Belay, Sai Sam Kham, and Zeynep Ceren Eren Benlisoy
- 30. Land and National Development Strategies in the Cold War Era
- Cristóbal Kay
- 31. Land and Geopolitics
- Michael Dwyer
- 32. Land Institutions and Agricultural Modernization in China
- Jingzhong Ye
- 33. China and Global Land Use Change
- Yunan Xu and Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
- 34. Conservation, Land Dispossession, and Resistance in Africa
- Connor Cavanagh and Tor A. Benjaminsen
- 35. The Politics of Resistance to Land Alienation
- Shapan Adnan
- 36. Land Is a Human Right
- Priscilla Claeys, Lorenzo Cotula, Jérémie Gilbert, Christophe Golay, Miloon Kothari, and Veronica Torres-Marenco
- 37. Land Struggles and Working People
- Jennifer C. Franco and Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
About the author
Saturnino M. Borras Jr. is Professor of Agrarian Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). He is a member of the distinguished Erasmus Professor Program at EUR, Distinguished Professor at China Agricultural University in Beijing, and an associate of the Transnational Institute (TNI). He was Editor-In-Chief of the
Journal of Peasant Studies for 15 years, until 2023. He coordinates the international network Initiatives in Critical Agrarian Studies (ICAS), and is a co-editor of its small books series in peasant studies and agrarian change.
Jennifer C. Franco is a researcher at the Transnational Institute (TNI), especially in the Agrarian and Environmental Justice Program and the Myanmar-In-Focus Program. She is Adjunct Professor at the College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD) of China Agricultural University in Beijing. She does extensive work on land issues using a scholar-activist method of work both in research
and social justice advocacy work.
