The Oxford Handbook of Land Politics
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 26 November 2025
- ISBN 9780197618646
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages906 pages
- Size 244x180x55 mm
- Weight 1656 g
- Language English 657
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Short description:
Access to land, in all its multiple meanings, is necessarily diverse, complex, and contentious, and facilitating and maintaining such access constitutes a mosaic of social relations and institutional instruments, rather than the minimalist and simplistic reduction of land to land property, that in turn tends to be interpreted always as individual private property. The Oxford Handbook of Land Politics offers heterodox analytical tools to help the reader make sense of the complexity of the politics of land.
MoreLong description:
The Oxford Handbook of Land Politics brings together key theoretical perspectives on the politics of land, as well as strategic thematic studies on land and social life, namely, food politics, climate change, labor regimes, nation-states and citizenship, and geopolitics. The contributors to this volume address the basic but complex questions of who gets to have access to land, why, how, what kind of land and how much, where and for how long, for what purposes, and with what implications as to who wins and who loses? These questions are grounded in social relations that are in turn rooted in class and other social group formations that are enacted within the inseparable spheres of state and society. Fundamental to this collection is its treatment of land in the context of production and social reproduction, where social reproduction is interpreted in a broad sense to include socio-ecological, socio-cultural, and socio-political reproduction. The definition of land used in this Handbook encompasses soil, farmland, grazing land, home lots, landscapes, socio-agroecological zones, territory, and homeland. Individually and together, the chapters show that making sense of the dynamics of global social life requires a fundamental understanding of the politics of land, and a grasp of land politics requires a comprehension of broader social life. For instance, land politics plays a key role in causing climate change, and at the same time it is centrally located in the competing solutions to the climate crisis. Understanding climate change politics necessarily requires a deep grasp of land politics. All contributing authors are critical of capitalism, and of theories that justify and celebrate it. While most contributions focus on dynamics of social change in and in relation to the rural world, these are cast in the context of rural-urban, agriculture-industry, national-global continuums. The Handbook is organically embedded in several disciplines and fields of study: political economy, political ecology, sociology, political science, economics, anthropology, legal studies, development studies, anthropology, environmental studies, and social movements. It is a critical resource for scholars and students who seek to understand the complex interactions between these various disciplines and land politics.
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About the Volume Editors
List of Contributors
Foreword
Ian Scoones
Land and Social Life
Saturnino M. Borras Jr. and Jennifer C. Franco
1. Marxism(s) and the Politics of Land
Henry Bernstein
2. Land in World-Ecology Perspectives
Raj Patel
3. Tracing the Land in Dependency and World-Systems Theories
Max Ajl
4. Land in the Chayanovian Tradition
Jan Douwe van der Ploeg
5. Land and Ecosocialism: In Defense of the Commons
Hannah Holleman
6. Land in the Anarchist Tradition
Andrej Grubacic, Julien-Fran--ois Gerber, and Andro Rilovic
7. Land from Poststructuralist/Postdevelopment Perspectives
Laura Gutierrez-Escobar
8. Land in Food Regimes
Philip McMichael
9. A Political Ecology of Financialization and Farmland Control
S. Ryan Isakson
10. The politics of land in a digital world
Alistair Fraser
11. Deep Explanation of Climate-Related Crises: Access Failure
Jesse Ribot
12. Agrarian Justice and Environmental Justice
Joan Martinez-Alier
13. Socioecological Relations in Land Politics: An Assemblage Perspective
Marvin Joseph F. Montefrio
14. Land, Industrial Livestock, and Interspecies Relations: The Pursuit of Scale and the Deceits of Productivity
Tony Weis
15. Land and Agroecology: Interpenetrating Theses
John Vandermeer and Ivette Perfecto
16. Beyond Land as Property: A Feminist Perspective
Diana Ojeda
17. Land, Social Reproduction, and Agrarian Change
Ben Cousins
18. Land Alienation, Proletarianization, and Changing Labor Market Regimes in Southern Africa
Walter Chambati
19. Land Politics and Human Mobilities: Using the Land-Mobility Nexus as an Analytical Lens
Kei Otsuki and Annelies Zoomers
20. Land for Livelihoods: Urban Agriculture and the Agrarian Question in the 21st Century
Ricardo Jacobs
21. Contract Farming, Agribusiness, and Land in Africa: Empowering Farmers or Appropriating Resources and Value?
Kojo S. Amanor
22. Public Authority, Property, and Citizenship: What We Talk about When We Talk about Land
Christian Lund
23. Land-Making as State-Making
Nikita Sud
24. State, Land, and Citizenship
Andrew Ofstehage and Wendy Wolford
25. Land in Violent Conflict Studies
Jacobo Grajales and Jean-Pierre Chauveau
26. Struggles over Land under Customary Tenure in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa
Pauline E. Peters
27. Tourism Troubles: The Intimate and Embodied Geographies of Land Grabbing in Panama
Sharlene Mollett
28. Ethnic Politics and Land Grabbing
Tsegaye Moreda
29. Ethnic Politics and Land
Nguyet Bao Dang, Doi Ra, Lorenza Arango, Moges Belay, Sai Sam Kham, and Zeynep Ceren Eren Benlisoy
30. Land and National Development Strategies in the Cold War Era
Crist--bal Kay
31. Land and Geopolitics
Michael Dwyer
32. Land Institutions and Agricultural Modernization in China
Jingzhong Ye
33. China and Global Land Use Change
Yunan Xu and Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
34. Conservation, Land Dispossession, and Resistance in Africa
Connor Cavanagh and Tor A. Benjaminsen
35. The Politics of Resistance to Land Alienation
Shapan Adnan
36. Land Is a Human Right
Priscilla Claeys, Lorenzo Cotula, J--r--mie Gilbert, Christophe Golay, Miloon Kothari, and Veronica Torres-Marenco
37. Land Struggles and Working People
Jennifer C. Franco and Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
