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Terra Brasilis, 2017 This article aims to understand the period between 1822 and 1850 as a moment of Brazilian history in which both the absolutization of private land property and the legalization of land grabbing were instituted simultaneously.
Gustavo Francisco Teixeira Prieto
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“Touching the Tarmac”: Conjuring the Urban Frontier on a Remote Periphery
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Anthropologists have demonstrated how the creation of land markets as “frontiers” for global capital requires practices of “conjuring”—the narrative construction of place as desirable for large‐scale investment. This article emphasizes the contingency of this conjuring process in an urbanizing Kenya where land‐selling companies have emerged to
Peter Lockwood
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Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary Despite the importance of resource reallocation in shaping a variety of strategic outcomes, strategy scholars have paid only limited attention to the processes by which firms reallocate their resources across successive systemic innovations.
Gino Cattani +2 more
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Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Heirs' property, land passed down informally without a clear title, poses significant economic challenges due to the tragedy of the anti‐commons. This study examines the impact of the Uniform Partition of Heirs' Property Act (UPHPA) on land use patterns in U.S. counties with high concentrations of heirs' property.
Peter Calcagno +2 more
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LandThe article aims to analyze the contemporary forms of territorial dispossession that stem from the energy transition, especially those related to free trade corridors and green grabbing in the context of Latin America.
Lia Pinheiro Barbosa +1 more
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Le droit, la violence et la terre : le rôle de l’État dans l’accaparement foncier en Colombie
Cahiers des Amériques Latines, 2016 Land grabbing has often been analytically related to the weakness of the state in countries of the global South. Yet it is impossible to fully understand this phenomenon without taking into consideration land policies, the paradigms of agrarian ...
Jacobo Grajales
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Tail wagging cats: Veterinary implications of AI‐generated video
Veterinary Record, EarlyView.Abstract Background Generative artificial intelligence (genAI) has the capacity to create realistic and convincing animal videos; however, it must simplify and reduce behavioural variation to do so, possibly leading to misinformation. Methods We categorised 29 videos in the press release for a specific video genAI engine. Twelve featured animals.
Jill R. D. MacKay, Louise Connelly
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A month's worth of rain in a day?
Weather, EarlyView.Phrases like ‘a month’s worth of rain in a day’ make for dramatic news headlines. But how often do such events occur? Are they more likely in certain locations or seasons? And can we expect more in the future? Here we examine these questions for the UK using observations and high‐resolution model simulations.
Natalie J. Harvey, Ben Harvey
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Land, 2018 Recently, we witnessed an immense increase in international land transactions in the Global South, a phenomenon slowly expanding in northern industrialized countries, too.
Ramona Bunkus, Insa Theesfeld
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The Independent Football Regulator: An Idea Whose Time Had Come?
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Major public policy change is both driven and constrained by consensus and dissensus. As J. W. Kingdon observed, when old agreements falter, new alliances can be built, ‘sometimes very rapidly, by cutting in many and diverse interests’. We show how a peculiar set of circumstances following the Covid pandemic brought together an unusual ...
Geoff Walters +2 more
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