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<div>"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." &#151;Oliver Tickell, Editor, <I>The Ecologist</I>.<BR><BR>Climate change ravages the earth, while wealthy elites try to grab as much of the world&#8217;s diminishing resources as possible. As Vandana Shiva writes, land is life. But land, and the struggle to possess it, is also power&#151;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.<BR><BR><I>Grabbing Back</I> 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

Author

Ross, Alexander Reid; Shiva, Vandana; Chomsky, Noam

Publisher

AK Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781849351898