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‘Grabbing Our Land Deprives Us of Our Future’: Struggles Against State‐Led Land Dispossession, Demands for Justice and Citizenship in Dakar's Urban Outskirts

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do people at the outskirts of Dakar struggle against urban land grabs and state‐led dispossession for urban development? How do they express the injustices they face and their demands for justice? What are they claiming, and what success have they had?
Philippe Lavigne Delville
wiley   +1 more source

From Social Justice to Indigenous Peoples' Rights: Continuities and (Re)framings in Ejido Property Claims in Yucatán, Mexico

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how long‐standing local conflicts concerning the nature of common property, the distribution of access and administrative rights associated with it, and more broadly the nature of the community and the forms of citizenship that organise its governance shape demands for justice regarding land transfers to outside investors
Eric Léonard   +2 more
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The Kichwa of Sarayaku Case at the Inter‐American Court of Human Rights: Legal Pluralism, Identity and Citizenship in a Context of Extractivism

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the tension between a universal approach to law and the recognition of indigenous peoples' rights at the Inter‐American Court of Human Rights. The struggle for citizenship in a situation of extractivism and land dispossession demonstrates how identity is mobilized to obtain and attribute rights. The focus of this study is
Elisabeth Cunin
wiley   +1 more source

Counter‐Plantation Imaginaries: Deproletarianisation and Struggle for Autonomy in India

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the decline of the 2015 Pembillai Orumai movement in India's Munnar tea belt as an event revealing the dialectical relationship between labour struggle and agrarian capitalism within the plantation complex. Although widely celebrated for securing wage gains through a historic Dalit woman–led strike, the movement's rapid ...
Jayaseelan Raj
wiley   +1 more source

A corporate turn? Insights from Colombia, the world's contemporary laboratory for transitional justice

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Corporate accountability remains marginal in transitional justice, despite growing evidence of economic actors’ complicity in armed conflicts. This article examines Colombia's transitional justice system to explain the persistent exclusion of corporate responsibility.
LINE JESPERSGAARD JAKOBSEN
wiley   +1 more source

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