Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing

Andreas Neef is Professor in Development Studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has researched and published in the areas of global land and resource grabbing, climate mobilities and mobility justice, climate change adaptation, post-disaster response and recovery, and community resilience. He is the author of Tourism, Land Grabs and Displacement: The Dark Side of the Feel-Good Industry (Routledge, 2021). Chanrith Ngin is Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Centre for Natural Resources and Environment at the Cambodia Development Resource Institute. He also serves as Honorary Academic at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Earlier, he was a Senior Research Fellow and Professional Teaching Fellow at the University of Auckland, a Designated Professor at Nagoya University Cambodia Satellite Campus, and Dean of the Faculty of Development Studies at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Tsegaye Moreda is Assistant Professor of Agrarian and Rural Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. His research interests are in the political economy of development, with a particular focus on agricultural, rural and environmental policies; land politics, rural-urban relations and synergies; natural resource politics and their implications for the environment, livelihoods, conflict and social justice. Sharlene Mollett is Associate Professor and Distinguished Professor in Feminist Cultural Geography, Nature and Society in the Departments of Human Geography and Global Development Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her work interrogates Indigenous and Afro-descendant land struggles in Central America.

Chapter 1. Global Land and Resource Grabbing: An Introduction

Andreas Neef, Sharlene Mollett, Chanrith Ngin and Tsegaye Moreda

Part 1: Historical Trajectories of Land and Resource Grabbing

Chapter 2. From the Colonial Doctrine of Discovery to Contemporary Land Grabs: "Dignity Taking" against the Poor

Thembela Kepe

Chapter 3. Riro Whenua Atu, Hoki Whenua Mai: Land Grabbing in British Settler States and Contested Land Restitution to Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand

Margaret Mutu

Chapter 4. Ruptures and Continuities: How the Global Land "Rush" (Re)produces Slow Violence on Latin America’s Resource Frontiers

Joel E. Correia

Part 2: Enabling Mechanisms and Governance of Land and Resource Grabbing

Chapter 5. Capture Land: Anti-Squatting Policy as Processual Land Grab in Jamaica

Rachel Goffe

Chapter 6. The Rule of Technocrats? Historical Conditions for a Land Grab in Northern Guatemala

Kevin Gould

Chapter 7. Governing Land Concessions in Laos

Miles Kenney-Lazar, Oliver Schönweger, Peter Messerli, and Vong Nanhthavong

Part 3: Large-Scale Land Acquisitions for Food, Feed and Biofuels

Chapter 8. Sugar Agro-Extractivism: Land Enclosures, Contract Farming and the Sugar Frontier in Africa

Giuliano Martiniello

Chapter 9. Conceptualizing Contract Farming in the Global Land Grabbing Debate

Mark Vicol and Helena Pérez Niño

Chapter 10. GMOs, the Land Grab, and Epistemological Enclosures

Lindsay Naylor

Part 4: Taking Land for Conservation, Eco-Tourism, Renewable Energy and Carbon Markets

Chapter 11. Green Territoriality and Resource Extraction in Cambodia

Sarah Milne, Tim Frewer, and Sango Mahanty

Chapter 12. Towards Climate-Smart Land Policy: Land Grabbing under a Changing Political Landscape in Mozambique

Natacha Bruna and Aires A. Mbanze

Chapter 13. Renewables Grabbing: Land and Resource Appropriations in the Global Energy Transition

Arnim Scheidel, Alevgul H. Sorman, Sofia Avila, Daniela Del Bene, and Jonas Ott

Chapter 14. Geospatial Technologies in Tourism Land and Resource Grabs: Evidence from Guatemala’s Protected Areas

Laura Aileen Sauls and Jennifer A. Devine

Part 5: Land Grabbing by Extractive Industries – Fossil Fuels, Minerals and Metals

Chapter 15. Arctic Resource Extraction in the Context of Climate Crises and Ecological Collapses

Markus Kröger

Chapter 16. Territorial Control, Dispossession and Resistance: The Political Economy of Large-Scale Mining in Asia

Pascale Hatcher and Etienne Roy Grégoire

Chapter 17. Phosphate Mining in Distant Places: The Dark Side of New Zealand’s Agricultural Economic Success

Catherine Alexander, Katerina Teaiwa, and Andreas Neef

Part 6: Blue Grabbing – The Global Rush for Freshwater and Marine Resources

Chapter 18. Cases of Water Grabbing in Waterscape Developments in India

Mansee Bal Bhargava

Chapter 19. The Historical Assembly of Oceania’s Deep-Sea Mining Frontier

Oliver Lilford and Matthew G. Allen

Chapter 20. Resource Grabbing and the Blue Commons: The Evolution of Institutions in Scallop Production in Sechura Bay, Peru

Achim Schlüter, Lotta Clara Kluger, María Garteizgogeascoa, and Gerardo Damonte

Chapter 21. Coastal Grabbing by Extractive Industries in the South Pacific: The Case of Fiji

Glenn Finau, Renata Varea, Rufino Varea, Sivendra Michael, and Andreas Neef

Part 7: Land Grabs for Large Infrastructure Projects

Chapter 22. Corridors of Connectivity and Infrastructural Land Grabbing in Laos

Jessica DiCarlo and Kearrin Sims

Chapter 23. Large Infrastructure Projects and Cascading Land Grabs: The Case of Northern Kenya

Evelyne Atieno Owino, Kennedy Mkutu, and Charis Enns

Chapter 24. The Great ‘Anti-Politics’ Progress Machine: Mega-Infrastructure Projects, Disenchanted Institutional Change and Dramas of Grabbed Commons

Tobias Haller and Samuel Weissman

Part 8: Urban Land Grabs and Special Economic Zones

Chapter 25. Urban Land Grabs: An Overview of the Issues

Kei Otsuki, Murtah Shannon, Griet Steel, and Femke van Noorloos

Chapter 26. History and Contemporary Displacement in Suva’s Informal Settlements

Eberhard Weber, Camari Koto, Andreas Kopf, Maelin Bhagwan, Asenaca Nawaqalevu, Nicholas Halter, and Koini Vamosi

Chapter 27. Transnational NGO Advocacy to Address Land Grabbing Injustices: The Case of the Thilawa Special Economic Zone in Myanmar

Setsuko Matsuzawa

Part 9: Land and Resource Grabbing: Resistance, Restitution and Remedies

Chapter 28. After the Rubber Boom: A Cautionary Tale from Southern Laos and Northeastern Cambodia

Ian G. Baird

Chapter 29. Gender and Dispossession in India: Dynamics of Women’s Participation in Anti-Land Grabbing Struggles

Saba Joshi

Chapter 30. The Role of Emotions in Resistance Movements against Land and Resource Grabs: New Evidence from Cambodia

Alice Beban and Sochanny Hak

Chapter 31. Filling Gaps in International Human Rights Law to Address Global Land and Resource Grabbing – Extraterritorial Human Rights Law Obligations of States and the Rights of Future Generations

Fons Coomans, Rolf Künnemann, and Andreas Neef