Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature

ISBN-13: 9780415644075 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 408 str.

James Fairhead

Opis

This study draws together 17 cases from African, Asian and Latin American settings to ask: To what extent and in what ways do 'green grabs' constitute new forms of appropriation of nature? How and when do appropriations on the ground emerge out of circulations of green capital. Are the ecologies, landscapes and livelihoods gaining or losing?

Spis treści

1. Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature?  2. Enclosing the Global Gommons: The Convention on Biological Diversity and Green Grabbing  3. Green Grabs and Biochar: Revaluing African Soils and Farming in the New Carbon Economy  4. Green Multiculturalism: Articulations of Ethnic and Environmental Politics in a Colombian ‘Black Community’  5. Conservation, Green/Blue Grabbing and Accumulation by Dispossession in Tanzania  6. Green Pretexts: Ecotourism, Neoliberal Conservation and Land Grabbing in Tayrona National Natural Park, Colombia  7. Tourism and the Politics of the Global Land Grab in Tanzania: Markets, Appropriation and Recognition  8. Marginal Lands: The Role of Remote Sensing in Constructing Landscapes for Agrofuel Development  9. Green Grabbing at the ‘Pharm’ Gate: Rosy Periwinkle Production in Southern Madagascar  10. Inverting the Impacts: Mining, Conservation and Sustainability Claims near the Rio Tinto/QMM Ilmenite Mine in Fort Dauphin, Southeast Madagascar 11. Taming the Jungle, Saving the Maya Forest: Sedimented Counterinsurgency Practices in Contemporary Guatemalan Conservation  12. Wild Property and its Boundaries: on Wildlife Policy and Rural Implications in South Africa  13. Trajectories of Land Acquisition and Enclosure: Development Schemes, Virtual Land Grabs, and Green Acquisitions in Indonesia’s Outer Islands  14. The Potential Perils of Forest Carbon Contracts for Developing Countries: Cases from Africa  15. Ordenamento Territorial: Neo-developmentalism and the Struggle for Territory in the Lower Brazilian Amazon  16. Why Green Grabs Don’t Work in Papua New Guinea

O autorze

James Fairhead is Chair in Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex and also chairs the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth. Melissa Leach is a Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex and Director of the ESRC STEPS (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) Centre. Ian Scoones is a Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex and co-directs the ESRC STEPS (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) Centre.