Dear colleagues,
Please find attached the call for papers for the panel “New
forms of land enclosures and land grabbing” at the SASC 2014 conference to be
held on November 21-22 in Cluj, Romania. To apply, please send an abstract of
up to 300 words by September the 28th.
Best wishes,
Raluca Pernes
Call for papers (deadline
extension)
New Forms of Land Enclosures and Land Grabbing
21st-22nd of November
2014, Cluj, Romania, http://socasis.ubbcluj.ro/sasc2014/?page_id=142
Convenor: Raluca
Pernes – Babeș-Bolyai University
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Over the last years, the global land rush has intensified,
fuelled by financial crises, as well as food security and environmental
concerns. Land grabbing by powerful local actors, transnational companies or
foreign states is responsible for tens of millions of hectares changing hands
in the last decade all over the world, with the largest land transactions
taking place in Sub-Saharan Africa, South America, Central America, and
Southeast Asia. Recently, the former USSR and South-Eastern Europe are also
becoming the site of such large commercial land transactions. Following on the dynamics
of colonialism and imperialism, new property regimes and new forms of land use
shape and express social relationships between individuals, corporations, NGOs,
and national governments, between the global North and South and as part of the
newer South-South relations. As such, land questions are a way of looking into
processes of dispossession, vulnerabilization, exclusion and control, as well
as performing power, producing territories and boundaries, or developing
institutions, rights, and law. This panel aims to bring together papers looking
at, but not limited to: capitalist investment in commodity crops and
biofuel; land expropriation in urban, peri-urban and rural contexts; the
changing law and practice of land leasing for the production of food and
biofuel and the extraction of minerals; legal and illegal means of controlling
land; agrarianization and de-agrarianization; peasantization and
re-peasantization; the impact of migration and urbanization on the land
question; labour and livelihoods.
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