Sommerville, Melanie;
Castanon Ballivian, Enrique;
Mudimu, George Tonderai;
Ngubane, Mnqobi;
(2025)
'Capital grabs back': towards a global research agenda on the land grabbing-land reform/restitution nexus.
The Journal of Peasant Studies
, 52
(7)
pp. 1551-1580.
10.1080/03066150.2025.2528863.
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Abstract
Capital is grabbing back land allocated through diverse national land reform and land restitution programmes globally. This article critically analyses this trend, which has so far received insufficient attention from land grab scholars. Drawing from independent research in South Africa, Bolivia, Canada, and Zimbabwe, we define a future research agenda investigating the capital segments and grabbing mechanisms involved as well as the factors that encourage or retard capital in grabbing back redistributed and restituted lands. We point to the need for further research into the land grabbing-land reform/restitution nexus in different geographic contexts and its implications for future land and agrarian struggles.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | 'Capital grabs back': towards a global research agenda on the land grabbing-land reform/restitution nexus |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/03066150.2025.2528863 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2025.2528863 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Social Sciences, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Anthropology, Development Studies, Land grab, land reform, South Africa, Bolivia, Canada, Zimbabwe, CHILEAN AGRARIAN TRANSFORMATION, SOUTH-AFRICA, REFORM, NEOLIBERALISM, ACCUMULATION, FINANCIALIZATION, RESERVES, LABOR, WORLD, FARM |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of the Americas |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10217990 |
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