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GRABBING BACK: ESSAYS AGAINST THE GLOBAL LAND GRAB
Título:
GRABBING BACK: ESSAYS AGAINST THE GLOBAL LAND GRAB
Subtítulo:
Autor:
REID ROSS, A
Editorial:
AK PRESS
Año de edición:
2014
ISBN:
978-1-84935-194-2
Páginas:
358
40,56 €

 

Sinopsis

Land grabs are a global phenomenon of our times, driven by the ever increasing demands of both global corporations and the governments with which they are allied. But as this powerful and timely book demonstrates, ordinary citizens, small farmers and ordinary citizens around the world are standing up to defend their own with passion and ingenuity, and they are recording successes that are both extraordinary and inspiring. --Oliver Tickell, Editor, The Ecologist.

Climate change ravages the earth, while wealthy elites try to grab as much of the world´s diminishing resources as possible. As Vandana Shiva writes, land is life. But land, and the struggle to possess it, is also power--colonial and corporate power, to be sure, but also the power of the dispossessed to rise up and call for an end to the global land grab.

Grabbing Back maps this struggle, bringing together analyses that uncover the politics of cultivation and control. In this unprecedented collection, on-the-ground activists join forces with critically acclaimed scholars to document the commodification and consumption of space, from foreclosed homes to annihilated rainforests, from ecotourism in Sri Lanka to the tar sands of Montana, and to outline the strategies and tactics that might the destruction.

With contributions by Vandana Shiva, Noam Chomsky, Max Rameau, Grace Lee Boggs, Michael Hardt, Ahjamu Umi, Ben Dangl, and many others.



Table of Contents:
Editor´s preface

Introduction

1. Decolonize!
Land Wars and the Great Land Grab Vandana Shiva
Factors Shaping the Global Land Rush Ward Anseew and Mike Taylor
Behind the Brochures Earth First! Sri Lanka
Land, Territory, Entropy Guillermo Delgado-P
Land and Indigenous Movements in the 21st Century: Evo and Lineras Marcelo Fernandez Osco
A Coup Over Land Ben Dangl

Intervention
Land Based Movements Noam Chomsky

2. Liberate!
Housing as a Human Right Ahjamu Umi
Take Back the Land Max Rameau
A Detroit Story Grace Lee Boggs, et. al.
Black Women on the Edge Keisha-Khan Perry
On the Path to Liberation Scott Crowe
Advancing the Alter-Modern Michael Hardt

Intervention
Exit and Territory: A World-Systems Analysis of Non-State Spaces Andrej Grubacic

3. Emancipate!
Fracking and the New Enclosures Simona Perry
Resisting Tar Sands Infrastructure Helen Yost
Ports as Places of ´Stickiness´ in Global Flows Andrew Herod
Occupied Mountains: Resisting Mountaintop Removal and Corporate Land Ownership Jen Osha, Matt Landon, Cathy Kunkle
Demanding the Land at a Public University? Alex Bernard