Ward Berenschot is Professor of Comparative Political Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and a Senior Researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV). He is the author of Riot Politics (2011) and co-author of Democracy for Sale (2019) and Rightless Resistance (2026).Neil Loughlin is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Comparative Politics at City St George’s, University of London. His research examines authoritarian politics and the political economy of development, and has appeared in journals including Comparative Politics, Democratization, Third World Quarterly, and the Journal of Contemporary Asia. He is the author of The Politics of Coercion: State and Regime Making in Cambodia (2024).

• 1. States and corporate land acquisition: comparing regimes of dispossession across the global south 2. Coding regimes of possession. An essay on land, property, and law 3. The production of rightlessness: palm oil companies and land dispossession in Indonesia 4. Speculative land grabs and Chinese investment: Cambodia’s evolving regime of dispossession 5. Dispossession of the commons: the Chaiya community forest and the creation of special economic zones 6. Tracking the sun: exposing India’s solar dispossessions 7. Land-grabbing mafias and dispossession in the Brazilian Amazon: rural–urban land speculation and deforestation in the Santarém region 8. Reconstructing regimes of dispossession

Ward Berenschot is Professor of Comparative Political Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and a Senior Researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV). He is the author of Riot Politics (2011) and co-author of Democracy for Sale (2019) and Rightless Resistance (2026).Neil Loughlin is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Comparative Politics at City St George’s, University of London. His research examines authoritarian politics and the political economy of development, and has appeared in journals including Comparative Politics, Democratization, Third World Quarterly, and the Journal of Contemporary Asia. He is the author of The Politics of Coercion: State and Regime Making in Cambodia (2024).

• 1. States and corporate land acquisition: comparing regimes of dispossession across the global south 2. Coding regimes of possession. An essay on land, property, and law 3. The production of rightlessness: palm oil companies and land dispossession in Indonesia 4. Speculative land grabs and Chinese investment: Cambodia’s evolving regime of dispossession 5. Dispossession of the commons: the Chaiya community forest and the creation of special economic zones 6. Tracking the sun: exposing India’s solar dispossessions 7. Land-grabbing mafias and dispossession in the Brazilian Amazon: rural–urban land speculation and deforestation in the Santarém region 8. Reconstructing regimes of dispossession

Ward Berenschot is Professor of Comparative Political Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and a Senior Researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV). He is the author of Riot Politics (2011) and co-author of Democracy for Sale (2019) and Rightless Resistance (2026).Neil Loughlin is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Comparative Politics at City St George’s, University of London. His research examines authoritarian politics and the political economy of development, and has appeared in journals including Comparative Politics, Democratization, Third World Quarterly, and the Journal of Contemporary Asia. He is the author of The Politics of Coercion: State and Regime Making in Cambodia (2024).

• 1. States and corporate land acquisition: comparing regimes of dispossession across the global south 2. Coding regimes of possession. An essay on land, property, and law 3. The production of rightlessness: palm oil companies and land dispossession in Indonesia 4. Speculative land grabs and Chinese investment: Cambodia’s evolving regime of dispossession 5. Dispossession of the commons: the Chaiya community forest and the creation of special economic zones 6. Tracking the sun: exposing India’s solar dispossessions 7. Land-grabbing mafias and dispossession in the Brazilian Amazon: rural–urban land speculation and deforestation in the Santarém region 8. Reconstructing regimes of dispossession