Grabbing back : essays against the global land grab /
"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...
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Oakland, California :
AK Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword : Toward socio-ecological self-management / Javier Sethness Castro
- Editor's introduction : The global land grab / Alexander Reid Ross
- Land wars and the great land grab / Vandana Shiva
- Factors shaping the global land rush / Ward Anseeuw and Mike Taylor
- Destructive development and land sales in Ethiopia / Graham Peebles
- Biofuels, land grabs, revolution / Alexander Reid Ross
- Environmental group events in today's China / Yangtze River Delta Earth First!
- Women, land-struggles, and globalization : an international perspective / Silvia Federici
- Land, territory, entropy / Guillermo Delgado-P
- A coup over land / Benjamin Dangl
- Black women on the edge / Keisha-Khan Perry and Ana Cristina da Silva Caminha
- Exit and territory : a world-systems analysis of non-state spaces / Andrej GrubacŒic
- Taking back the commons : an introduction / Alexander Reid Ross
- Reconstructing the poor peoples movement / Noam Chomsky
- A Detroit story : ideas whose time has come / Grace Lee Boggs ... [et al.]
- Capitalism, racism, resistance / Ahjamu Umi
- Take back the land / Max Rameau
- Organizing through disaster for liberation and solidarity / scott crow
- Occupied mountains / Jen Osha, Cathy Kunkel, and Andrew Munn
- Mi'kmaq against the gas grab / Miles Howe
- Ports as places of stickiness in a world of global flows / Andrew Herod
- Resistance to Alberta Tar Sands megaloads in Idaho & beyond / Helen Yost and Alexander Reid Ross
- Demanding the land at a public university? Space, place, and occupation at the University of California, Berkeley / Alex Barnard
- Advancing the alter-modern / Michael Hardt.