Lorenza Arango, Sai Sam Khan, Doi Ra, Itayosara Rojas, Yunan Xu, CASAS’ members, have published an article in Third World Quarterly with Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Moges Belay, Jennifer C. Franco, Tsegaye Moreda & Chunyu Wang.
Abstract: Resistance to extractivist land grabs is diverse in character and trajec-tory, at least those in Colombia, Ethiopia, Myanmar and China. We arguethat this diversity is influenced by the social structures and institutionsupon which land grabs unfold. These conditions also shape how landgrabs take shape across time and space. We have identified two broadtypes of land grabs in terms of status: operational corporate and failedcorporate land deals; and three broad types in terms of scale: large-scalecorporate land grabs, and non-corporate medium-scale and pin-prickland grabs. Most studies on resistance to land grabs engage with oper-ational corporate large-scale cases, while the studies are thin on thecorporate ‘failed’ land deals and medium-scale and pin-prick land grabs.Our paper demonstrates not only the uneven contention and outcomesof resistance, but also the patterns in the shifts in the forms of struggles,as we also specified the difference between struggles against land grabsof demarcated plots, and against the land rush more generally.Perspectives from across diverse cases in terms of land grab status andscale provide important insights into the political struggles againstextractivism and capitalism more broadly.
Read their full article here: https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2025.2540522
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The Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the Global South (CASAS) is a community of Scholar-Activists working in critical agrarian studies.