Titles that may be of interest to those considering the New Forms of Land Enclosures and Land Grabbing Conference in November
Land's End<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/lands-end>
Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/lands-end>
Tania Murray Li
Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research in Sulawesi, Indonesia, Tania Murray Li offers an intimate account of the emergence of capitalist relations among indigenous highlanders who privatized their common land to plant a boom crop, cacao. Spurred by the hope of ending their poverty and isolation, some prospered, while others lost their land and struggled to sustain their families. Yet the winners and losers in this transition were not strangers-they were kin and neighbors. Li's richly peopled account takes the reader into the highlander's world, exploring the dilemmas they faced as sharp inequalities emerged among them.
The book challenges complacent, modernization narratives promoted by development agencies that assume inefficient farmers who lose out in the shift to high-value export crops can find jobs elsewhere. Decades of uneven and often jobless growth in Indonesia meant that for newly landless highlanders, land's end was a dead end. The book also has implications for social movement activists, who seldom attend to instances where enclosure is initiated by farmers rather than coerced by the state or agribusiness corporations. Li's attention to the historical, cultural, and ecological dimensions of this conjuncture demonstrates the power of the ethnographic method and its relevance to theory and practice today.
Duke University Press
August 2014 256pp 14 illustrations 9780822357056 PB £15.99 now only £11.99 when you quote CS0914LAND<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/lands-end> when you order.
Trojan-Horse Aid<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/trojan-horse-aid>
Seeds of Resistance and Resilience in the Bolivian Highlands and Beyond<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/trojan-horse-aid>
Susan Walsh
"This compassionate memoir is filled with insights into the daily and structural contradictions of the development business, with a clarity that can come only from the rarest of people -a thoughtful and reflective practitioner. From the Bolivian highlands, Susan has given us an even-handed, informed, and lucid critique of the development industry and all it touches, herself included. A must-read for anyone with ambitions of being practically involved in international development."-Raj Patel, bestselling author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
Trojan-Horse Aid challenges the idea of Western capacity-building, particularly the notion that introduced technologies related to food production are essential ingredients for sustainable livelihoods among farmers. Walsh argues that the well-intentioned organizations working in Jalq'a communities paid insufficient attention to longstanding knowledge that has supported human survival in regions where the natural world has the upper hand. Walsh goes beyond a critical review of misguided aid to offer reflections on the relationship between indigenous knowledge and resilience theory, the hopeful future of development assistance, and the contradictions in her own hybrid role as researcher and development-practitioner. In light of growing global concern over the worsening food crisis and interconnected climate extremes, Trojan-Horse Aid offers an important critique of development practices that undermine peasant strategies as well as suggestions for more effective approaches for the future.
McGill-Queen's University Press
November 2014 336pp 26 b&w photographs 9780773544345 PB £20.99 now only £15.74 when you quote CS0914LAND<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/trojan-horse-aid> when you order.
Consuming Ocean Island<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/consuming-ocean-island>
Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/consuming-ocean-island>
Katerina Martina Teaiwa
Consuming Ocean Island tells the story of the land and people of Banaba, a small Pacific island, which, from 1900 to 1980, was heavily mined for phosphate, an essential ingredient in fertilizer. As mining stripped away the island's surface, the land was rendered uninhabitable, and the indigenous Banabans were relocated to Rabi Island in Fiji. Katerina Martina Teaiwa tells the story of this human and ecological calamity by weaving together memories, records, and images from displaced islanders, colonial administrators, and employees of the mining company. Her compelling narrative reminds us of what is at stake whenever the interests of industrial agriculture and indigenous minorities come into conflict. The Banaban experience offers insight into the plight of other island peoples facing forced migration as a result of human impact on the environment.
Indiana University Press
October 2014 262pp 38 b&w illustrations, 2 maps 9780253014528 PB £17.99 now only £13.49 when you quote CS0914LAND<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/consuming-ocean-island> when you order
A Nation Rising<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/a-nation-rising>
Hawaiian Movements for Life, Land, and Sovereignty<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/a-nation-rising>
Edited by Noelani Goodyear-Ka'opua, Ikaika Hussey & Erin Kahunawaika'ala Wright
A Nation Rising chronicles the political struggles and grassroots initiatives collectively known as the Hawaiian sovereignty movement. Scholars, community organizers, journalists, and filmmakers contribute essays that explore Native Hawaiian resistance and resurgence from the 1970s to the early 2010s. Photographs and vignettes about particular activists further bring Hawaiian social movements to life. The stories and analyses of efforts to protect land and natural resources, resist community dispossession, and advance claims for sovereignty and self-determination reveal the diverse objectives and strategies, as well as the inevitable tensions of the broad-tent sovereignty movement. The collection explores the Hawaiian political ethic of ea, which both includes and exceeds dominant notions of state-based sovereignty. A Nation Rising raises issues that resonate far beyond the Hawaiian archipelago, issues such as Indigenous cultural revitalization, environmental justice, and demilitarization.
Duke University Press
October 2014 448pp 83 photographs 9780822356950 PB £17.99 now only £13.49 when you quote CS0914LAND<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/a-nation-rising>when you order.
Challenging Social Inequality
The Landless Rural Workers Movement and Agrarian Reform in Brazil
Edited by Miguel Carter
"Challenging Social Inequality is a complete guide to a social movement of enormous importance, one comparable to the civil rights movement in the United States particularly with respect to its capacity to mobilize, raise consciousness, and bring about change."-Ralph Della Cava, Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University
In Challenging Social Inequality, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars and development workers explore the causes, consequences, and contemporary reactions to Brazil's sharply unequal agrarian structure. They focus on the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST), Latin America's largest and most prominent social movement, and the ongoing efforts of the MST to confront historic patterns of inequality in the Brazilian countryside. Several essays provide essential historical background for understanding the MST. They examine Brazil's agrarian structure, state policies, and the formation of rural civil-society organizations. Other essays build on a frequently made distinction between the struggle for land and the struggle on the land. The first refers to the mobilization undertaken by landless peasants to demand government land redistribution. The struggle on the land takes place after the establishment of an official agricultural settlement. The main efforts during this phase are geared toward developing productive and meaningful rural communities. The last essays in the collection are wide-ranging analyses of the MST, which delve into the movement's relations with recent governments and its impact on other Brazilian social movements. In the conclusion, Miguel Carter appraises the future of agrarian reform in Brazil.
Duke University Press
October 2014 544pp 33 photographs, 57 tables, 11maps, 1 figure 9780822351726 HB £65 now only £48.75 when you quote CS0914LAND<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/ge/2261-pink-and-blue.html> when you order.
Land for the People<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/land-for-the-people>
The State and Agrarian Conflict in Indonesia<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/land-for-the-people>
Edited by Anton Lucas & Carol Warren
Half of Indonesia's massive population still lives on farms, and for these tens of millions of people the revolutionary promise of land reform remains largely unfulfilled. The Basic Agrarian Law, enacted in the wake of the Indonesian revolution, was supposed to provide access to land and equitable returns for peasant farmers. But fifty years later, the law's objectives of social justice have not been achieved.
Land for the People provides a comprehensive look at land conflict and agrarian reform throughout Indonesia's recent history, from the roots of land conflicts in the pre-Revolutionary period and the Sukarno and Suharto regimes, to the present day, in which democratization is creating new contexts for people's claims to the land. Drawing on studies from across Indonesia's diverse landscape, the contributors examine some of the most significant issues and events affecting land rights, including shifts in policy from the early post-revolutionary period to the New Order; the Land Administration Project that formed the core of land policy during the late New Order period; a long-running and representative dispute over a golf course in West Java that pitted numerous local farmers against the government and local elites; Suharto's notorious "million hectare" project that resulted in loss of access to land and resources for numerous indigenous farmers in Kalimantan; and the struggle by Bandung's urban poor to be treated equitably in the context of commercial land development. Together, these essays provide a critical resource for understanding one of Indonesia's most pressing and most influential issues.
Ohio University Press
June 2013 408pp b&w photographs and drawings 9780896802872 PB £20.99 now only £15.74 when you quote CS0914LAND<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/land-for-the-people> when you order.
Troubled Geographies<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/troubled-geographies>
A Spatial History of Religion and Society in Ireland<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/troubled-geographies>
Ian N. Gregory & Niall A. Cunningham
"An ambitious and extremely interesting display of the value of the Centre's [CDDA, Queen's University Belfast] data and analysis for understanding a major topic in Irish history: religion." -David W. Miller, Carnegie Mellon University
Ireland's landscape is marked by fault lines of religious, ethnic, and political identity that have shaped its troubled history. Troubled Geographies maps this history by detailing the patterns of change in Ireland from 16th century attempts to "plant" areas of Ireland with loyal English Protestants to defend against threats posed by indigenous Catholics, through the violence of the latter part of the 20th century and the rise of the "Celtic Tiger." The book is concerned with how a geography laid down in the 16th and 17th centuries led to an amalgam based on religious belief, ethnic/national identity, and political conviction that continues to shape the geographies of modern Ireland. Troubled Geographies shows how changes in religious affiliation, identity, and territoriality have impacted Irish society during this period. It explores the response of society in general and religion in particular to major cultural shocks such as the Famine and to long term processes such as urbanization.
Indiana University Press
November 2013 264pp 194 maps 9780253009739 PB £28.99 now only £21.74 when you quote CS0914LAND when you order.
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