Global land grabbing and political reactions 'from below'
JPS has released a special issue on 'global land grabbing and political reactions from below', guest edited by Marc Edelman, Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones, Ben White and Wendy Wolford! The collection is free access for a limited period through the following URL:
http://www.tandfonline.com/r/fjps-42-3
The special issue demonstrates that political reactions ‘from below’ to global land grabbing have been vastly more varied and complex than is usually assumed. The special issue is a collection of ground-breaking studies that discuss responses that range from various types of organized and everyday resistance to demands for incorporation or for better terms of incorporation into land deals. Initiatives ‘from below’ in response to land deals have involved local and transnational alliances and the use of legal and extra-legal methods, and have brought victories and defeats. It is one of the publications that came out of the Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI) conference held in Cornell University in October 2012.
Please see also the first two installments of exploratory articles on 'flex crops':
http://www.tandfonline.com/r/fjps-flex-crops
We also invite you (re)visit the (still free access!) special issue on food sovereignty (41.6) and another one that includes financialization of agriculture/food (41.5) where the award-winning article of Madeleine Fairbairn appears:
http://www.tandfonline.com/r/fjps-41-6
critical perspectives on food sovereignty, JPS 41(6)
Edited by: Edelman, Scott, Baviskar, Borras, Holt-Gimenez, Kandiyoti, Weis & Wolford
http://www.tandfonline.com/r/fjps-41-5
New directions in agrarian political economy, JPS 41(5)
Edited by: Fairbairn, Fox, Isakson, Levien, Peluso, Razavi, Scoones & Sivaramakrishnan
