Grabbing back
Subtitle: essays against the global land grab
By: edited by Alexander Reid Ross
Contributors: Shiva, Vandana; Chomsky, Noam; Rameau, Max; Boggs, Grace Lee
Publisher: AK Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oakland, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781849351942
Subjects: Land tenure; Protest movements; Social movements; Land use; History
Description: "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 analysis that uncover the politics of cultivation and control. In this unprecedented collection, on-the-ground activists join forces with critically acclaimed scholars to documents 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 halt the destruction"--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword. Toward socio-ecological self-management / Javier Sethness Castro; title: Editor's introduction. The global land grab / Alexander Reid Ross; title: Struggle in the south. Land wars and the great land grab / Vandana Shiva; title: Factors shaping the global land rush / Ward Anseeuw and Mike Taylor; title: Destructive development and land sales in Ethiopia / Graham Peebles; title: Biofuels, land grabs, revolution / Alexander Reid Ross; title: Environmental group events in today's China / Yangtze River Delta Earth First!; title: Women, land-struggles, and globalization : an international perspective / Silvia Federici; title: Land, territory, entropy / Guillermo Delgado-P; title: A coup over land / Benjamin Dangl; title: Black women on the edge / Keisha-Khan Perry and Ana Cristina da Silva Caminha; title: Interlude. Exit and territory : a world-systems analysis of non-state spaces / Andrej Grubačić; title: Crisis in the north. Taking back the commons : an introduction / Alexander Reid Ross; title: Reconstructing the poor peoples movement / Noam Chomsky; title: A Detroit story : ideas whose time has come / Grace Lee Boggs ... [et al.]; title: Capitalism, racism, resistance / Ahjamu Umi; title: Take back the land / Max Rameau; title: Organizing through disaster for liberation and solidarity / scott crow; title: Occupied mountains / Jen Osha, Cathy Kunkel, and Andrew Munn; title: Mi'kmaq against the gas grab / Miles Howe; title: Ports as places of stickiness in a world of global flows / Andrew Herod; title: Resistance to Alberta Tar Sands megaloads in Idaho & beyond / Helen Yost and Alexander Reid Ross; title: Demanding the land at a public university? Space, place, and occupation at the University of California, Berkeley / Alex Barnard; title: Advancing the alter-modern / Michael Hardt; title: Epilogue / Alexander Reid Ross.