Governing Global Land Deals

Wendy Wolford is the Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Development Sociology at Cornell University.Saturnino M. Borras, Jr. is Associate Professor of Rural Development Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague, The Netherlands.Ruth Hall is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape.Ian Scoones is a Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex and co-director of the ESRC STEPS Centre at Sussex and joint convener of the IDS-hosted Future Agricultures Consortium.Ben White is Emeritus Professor of Rural Sociology at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague, the Netherlands.The editors are co-coordinators of the Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI: iss.nl/ldpi) an international network of scholars doing engaged research on the issue of global land grabbing.

• List of Contributors vii1 Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land 1Wendy Wolford, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones and Ben White2 State Involvement, Land Grabbing and Counter-Insurgency in Colombia 23Jacobo Grajales3 Road Mapping: Megaprojects and Land Grabs in the Northern Guatemalan Lowlands 45Liza Grandia4 Land Regularization in Brazil and the Global Land Grab 71Gustavo de L.T. Oliveira5 Negotiating Environmental Sovereignty in Costa Rica 93Dana J. Graef6 Building the Politics Machine: Tools for ‘Resolving’ the Global Land Grab 117Michael B. Dwyer7 Indirect Dispossession: Domestic Power Imbalances and Foreign Access to Land in Mozambique 141Madeleine Fairbairn8 Competition over Authority and Access: International Land Deals in Madagascar 163Perrine Burnod, Mathilde Gingembre and Rivo Andrianirina Ratsialonana9 Regimes of Dispossession: From Steel Towns to Special Economic Zones 185Michael Levien10 The Political Construction of Wasteland: Governmentality, Land Acquisition and Social Inequality in South India 211Jennifer Baka11 Chinese Land-Based Interventions in Senegal 231Lila Buckley12 Identity, Territory and Land Conflict in Brazil 253LaShandra SullivanIndex 275