ISS staff and PhD student publications on global land grabbing just released!

Emeritus Professor Ben White co-guest edited a special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies entitled, ‘The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals'

The introductory essay is co-authored by Professor White and Dr. Saturnino M. (‘Jun’) Borras Jr. (together with Ian Scoones, Ruth Hall and Wendy Wolford).

Professor White is co-author (with Julia) of another article in the collection: ‘Gendered experiences of dispossession: oil palm expansion in a Dayak Hibun community in West Kalimantan’.

Professor Max Spoor and ISS PhD student Natalia Mamonova are co-authors (with Dr. Visser) of the article, ‘Oligarchs, megafarms and land reserves: understanding land grabbing in Russia’.

Dr. Borras, Professor Spoor and Emeritus Professor Cristobal Kay are co-authors (with Dr. Franco and Dr. Gomez) of another article in the collection: ‘Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean’.

To see the complete Table of Contents of the 18-article collection, see the attached flyer, or go to the JPS website

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Several of the contributing authors in this collection (e.g. Ian Scoones, Wendy Wolford, Esteve Corbera, Philip McMichael) will be at ISS for the Critical Agrarian Studies Colloquium (theme: Global Land Grabbing) on 11 June, 9:00 – 18:00.