Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing

This handbook provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of global land and resource grabbing. Global land and resource grabbing has become an increasingly prominent topic in academic circles, among development practitioners, human rights advocates, and in policy arenas. The Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing sustains this intellectual momentum by advancing methodological, theoretical and empirical insights. It presents and discusses resource grabbing research in a holistic manner by addressing how the rush for land and other natural resources, including water, forests and minerals, is intertwined with agriculture, mining, tourism, energy, biodiversity conservation, climate change, carbon markets, and conflict. The handbook is truly global and interdisciplinary, with case studies from the Global South and Global North, and chapter contributions from practitioners, activists and academics, with emerging and Indigenous authors featuring strongly across the chapters. The handbook will be essential reading for students and scholars interested in land and resource grabbing, agrarian studies, development studies, critical human geography, global studies and natural resource governance. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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 Maori 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

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 theCambodia 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 ofAuckland, a Designated Professor at Nagoya University Cambodia Satellite Campus, and Dean of the Faculty ofDevelopment Studies at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Tsegaye Moredais 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.