In this article we analyse and theorise how power is exercised and subjectivities reworked to
achieve and maintain socio‐political order in areas of large‐scale international extractive …

This paper provides an introduction to this special issue by presenting a general picture of
the economic and political situation of the Latin American countryside at the dawn of this …

Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have become the epicenters of 'land wars' across India,
with farmers resisting the state's forcible transfer of their land to capitalists. Based on 18 …

This paper seeks to reconstruct David Harvey's theory of accumulation by dispossession
(ABD) through an ethnography of a Special Economic Zone in Rajasthan, India. While …

This article compares land dispossession for industrial development under state‐
developmentalism and neoliberalism in India. Drawing on interviews, ethnography and …

This essay provides theoretical and empirical analysis of the interrelationships between land
grabs, primitive accumulation and accumulation by dispossession (ABD) in the context of …

Gentrification requires properties to be available for investment through market transactions.
In mainland China which has gone through transition from a planned to a market economy, it …

This paper critically examines theories of accumulation, dispossession and exclusion for
analyzing the agrarian transformations that result from contemporary large-scale land …

This special issue, a collection of papers presented and debated at an Urban Studies
Foundation-funded workshop on Global Gentrification in London in 2012, attempts to …

While struggles over land dispossession have recently proliferated across the developing
world and become particularly significant in India, this paper argues that existing theories of …