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SUMMARY:(P17) Comparing Regimes of Dispossession: States and Corporate Land Acquisition in Southeast Asia
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DESCRIPTION:Across Southeast Asia economic growth is spurring conflicts ove
 r land. Much of that economic growth is highly land-intensive, as the expan
 sion of corporate activities in the sectors such as mining, hydropower, big
  agro-business (like palm oil or sugar cane), infrastructure or real estate
  development generate complex processes of land-use change. This expansion 
 is having a massive impact on patterns of land tenure as private corporatio
 ns as well as government agencies acquire control over land previously used
  by rural communities. As a growing literature on ‘land grabbing’ details, 
 these processes of land\nacquisition often proceed without informed consent
  nor adequate compensation of affected people.\n\nBy bringing together stud
 ies of land dispossession from a range of different countries, this panel a
 ims to engage in a comparative discussion of the relationship between state
 s and private capital in the acquisition of rural land. So far, the growing
  literature on land grabbing has paid limited comparative attention to regi
 onal and sectoral variation. Yet there\nare many indications that the ‘regi
 mes of dispossession’ (Levien 2018) through which private capital acquires 
 land differs markedly between countries and sectors. State dispossession is
 , to start, facilitating diverse economic sectors and trajectories of growt
 h in different regions: in some places focused on agriculture and mining, i
 n others urban-industrial land uses. The\nlaw is similarly playing a varied
 , ambivalent role: while protecting communal land rights in some contexts, 
 legal provisions elsewhere are facilitators of land dispossession. Laws and
  policies affecting compensation are similarly varied, often reflecting bot
 h existing land tenure arrangements, proposed land use changes and the dept
 h of political opposition. And finally, while state-led expropriation is do
 minant in many contexts, elsewhere corporate actors are more directly invol
 ved, sometimes through coarse forms of coercion and fraud, and sometimes in
  connivance with various decentralized agents (mafias, paramilitaries, and 
 so on). Such variation calls for a comparative analysis of the role of the 
 state in land dispossession. In particular we aim to generate reflection on
  the causes and consequences of this variation, and its implications for re
 sistance to land grabbing
URL:https://euroseas2021.org/panels/comparing-regimes-of-dispossession-states-and-corporate-land-acquisition-in-southeast-asia
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