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   Resistance, acquiescence or incorporation? An introduction to land grabbing and political reactions ‘from below’

   Journal Articles & Books

   December, 2015

   Global

   Land & Investments

   legal empowerment

   development agencies

   land grabbing

   extractive industries

   tenure security

   land ownership

   land investments

   land acquisitions

   title deeds

   land titling

   poverty

   land policies

   land law

   Political reactions ‘from below’ to global land grabbing have been vastly more varied and complex than is usually assumed. This essay introduces a collection of ground- breaking studies that discuss responses that range from various types of organized and everyday resistance to demands for incorporation or for better terms of incorporation into land deals. Initiatives ‘from below’ in response to land deals have involved local and transnational alliances and the use of legal and extra-legal methods, and have brought victories and defeats.