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Left to Live and Die: Resource Security and the Biopolitics of Land Stockpiling in China

open access: yesAntipode, EarlyView.
Abstract Beginning in 2007, the Chinese state used liberalising policy and funding to encourage the expansion of large‐scale grain farming. Despite this support, many of the new farms have struggled financially and folded. Drawing on Foucauldian biopolitics and resource security literature, I argue that, with modernised agriculture, the state primarily
Ross Doll
wiley   +1 more source

“Build the New City as Fast as Possible”: Speculation as Subsistence in Peri‐Urban Myanmar

open access: yesAntipode, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines an ambitious plan to construct a built‐from‐scratch new city outside Yangon, Myanmar and sheds light on the contradictory responses sparked by rapid urban expansion. Despite fears that this megaproject would threaten the region's way of life, hopes for the new city's construction remained high throughout the project's ...
Courtney T. Wittekind
wiley   +1 more source

Host Country Politics and Internationalization: A Meta‐Analytic Review

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, Volume 60, Issue 1, Page 204-241, January 2023., 2023
Abstract We study how host country politics influence internationalization. Our meta‐analysis clarifies which ideas receive support across the empirical literature and reveals new theoretical insights in three areas: the conceptualization of host country politics, the impact of host country politics on internationalization steps, and the moderating ...
Alvaro Cuervo‐Cazurra   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Reserve Army of Timber: The Racialised Regime of Private Forest Lands in British Columbia

open access: yesAntipode, EarlyView.
Abstract This article tells the story of how a massive belt of private forest land located on the eastern seaboard of Vancouver Island has functioned as a “reserve army” of timber that private capital has drawn on when they have found themselves increasingly constrained in their operations on Crown land.
Michael Ekers
wiley   +1 more source

Slow violence on the Yarmouk River: Encounters from the river‐border environments

open access: yesArea, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This paper complicates the river‐as‐border scholarships by attending to how river borders are environments which are experienced differently by communities living in them through different forms of infrastructural and slow violence.
Muna Dajani
wiley   +1 more source

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