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How do land deals impact access to land and natural resources?

New article by Doi Ra in Globalizations
  • Tuesday 15 Jul 2025, 09:14
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Even 'failed' land deals - those cancelled, withdrawn or never materialized – generate significant political struggles and have lasting consequences.

Reclaiming farmlands after Yuzana company was driven out in the Hugawng valley, Kachin state, Myanmar
Reclaiming farmlands after Yuzana company was driven out in the Hugawng valley, Kachin state, Myanmar
Doi Ra

So argues Dr Doi Ra in her article published recently in Globalizations.

Drawing on surveys conducted in Kachin State, Myanmar, Doi Ra finds that even ‘failed’ land deals are sites of important and complex political struggles. However, outcomes of land struggles – whether in the form of ‘public victory’ or ‘silent return’ (of land to people; of people to the land) – do not necessarily translate to socially just outcomes for rural working people.

Read the full article online - 'Global land rush and local resistance: Political struggles in 'failed' land deals'. Globalizations, June 2025.

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Dr Doi Ra
Doi Ra is an ISS Visiting Fellow. She is part of the Commodity & Land Rushes and Regimes (RRUSHES-5) research team.
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