Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land

List of Contributors vii1 Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land 1Wendy Wolford, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones and Ben White2 State Involvement, Land Grabbing and Counter-Insurgency in Colombia 23Jacobo Grajales3 Road Mapping: Megaprojects and Land Grabs in the Northern Guatemalan Lowlands 45Liza Grandia4 Land Regularization in Brazil and the Global Land Grab 71Gustavo de L.T. Oliveira5 Negotiating Environmental Sovereignty in Costa Rica 93Dana J. Graef6 Building the Politics Machine: Tools for 'Resolving' the Global Land Grab 117Michael B. Dwyer7 Indirect Dispossession: Domestic Power Imbalances and Foreign Access to Land in Mozambique 141Madeleine Fairbairn8 Competition over Authority and Access: International Land Deals in Madagascar 163Perrine Burnod, Mathilde Gingembre and Rivo Andrianirina Ratsialonana9 Regimes of Dispossession: From Steel Towns to Special Economic Zones 185Michael Levien10 The Political Construction of Wasteland: Governmentality, Land Acquisition and Social Inequality in South India 211Jennifer Baka11 Chinese Land-Based Interventions in Senegal 231Lila Buckley12 Identity, Territory and Land Conflict in Brazil 253LaShandra SullivanIndex 275