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Biblioteca Politics of inclusion and exclusion in the Chinese industrial tree plantation sector: The global resource rush seen from inside China

Politics of inclusion and exclusion in the Chinese industrial tree plantation sector: The global resource rush seen from inside China

Politics of inclusion and exclusion in the Chinese industrial tree plantation sector: The global resource rush seen from inside China

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Date of publication
Enero 2018
Resource Language
ISBN / Resource ID
NARCIS:eur:oai:repub.eur.nl:105483
Pages
25

In the last two decades, the industrial tree plantation (ITP) sector has expanded rapidly in southern China, causing important changes in land-use and land control. It involves both domestic and transnational corporations, and has provoked widespread conflict and political contestations. The villagers who are affected by the expansion of ITPs have reacted in varied and complex ways: some of the villagers were incorporated in the ITP sector, while others are excluded; some have embraced the change, while others have complaints; and some of the complaints remained latent, while others developed into (overt or covert) forms of resistance. This paper explores how and why various social groups have responded differently to the expansion of ITPs. This paper reveals the dynamics of villagers’ inclusion and exclusion in the ITP sector, covering both ‘passive’ and ‘active’ forms of inclusion and exclusion, resulting in differentiated political reactions from villagers. This paper hopes to contribute towards a more comprehensive understanding of the complex engagement of villagers in changes in land use and land control, not just in the most commonly studied countries in global land grabbing but inside China, and in transactions that involved large foreign companies, something that has so far been missed in the literature on land grabbing.

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