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Food Sovereignty in the Era of Land Grabbing: An African Perspective
Kannan Ambalam
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No Remedy: Injustice and Constrained Citizenship in Indonesia's Plantation Zone
ABSTRACT This contribution to the special issue examines a constrained version of citizenship in Indonesia's plantation zone. When corporations take hold of village land, residents experience devastating dispossession and a profound sense of injustice, yet they lack effective channels through which to claim rights as citizens or secure remedy from the ...
Tania Murray Li, Pujo Semedi
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ABSTRACT Fieldwork is the cornerstone of empirical research in agrarian studies. Discussion about methodological options has, however, not kept up with the innovative conceptual developments taking place within the discipline. This is particularly evident in the study of social differentiation, a key concern in agrarian scholarship. Through a review of
Patrick Illien, Helena Pérez Niño
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Embedded Pesticide Use: Exploring the Pesticide‐Land Nexus
ABSTRACT Since the turn of the century, global land grabs, farmland financialization and land‐based food sovereignty movements have returned the land question to the heart of agrarian studies. Meanwhile, abiding interest in pesticides has been reanimated in the face of changes in production, regulation and knowledge of toxicity.
Julie Guthman, Marion Werner
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Intentionality and Attentionality Dynamics in an Institutional Change Process
Abstract In this article, we explore how actors' intentionality emerges, develops, and co‐evolves with institutional change. Although intentions are essential in shaping institutional change agents' motivations and actions, our understanding of their dynamics is limited and biased by the assumption that intentions are usually identifiable prior to ...
Sofiane Baba, Taïeb Hafsi, Omar Hemissi
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Abstract This article examines how and to what extent violence has become a pivotal tool for conducting business in places integrated into the global value chain. It also explores the roles stakeholders play in silencing workers' resistance within these places.
Shoaib Ahmed
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Political Dynamics of Global Land Grabs: Exploring the Land-Labour Nexus on Ghana’s Eastern Corridor
Adwoa Yeboah Gyapong
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Abstract This essay argues that social media document (rather than fuel) the decline of political democracy while helping revive organizational democracy, including through ‘decentralized autonomous organizations’ (DAOs). Yet, despite giving everyone a voice and the ability to organize across borders, social media could over‐concentrate power if, in ...
J.P. Vergne
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