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Land Takeovers
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Below are groups and resources (books, articles, websites, etc.) related to this topic. Click on an item’s title to go its resource page with author, publisher, description/abstract and other details, a link to the full text if available, as well as links to related topics in the Subject Index. You can also browse the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, LoC, and Format indexes, or use the Search box. Connexions LibraryAboriginal Ontario: Historical Perspectives on the First Nations Rogers, Edward S.; Smith, Donald B. (eds.) Book 1994 Essays on the history of Ontario's native people. Bangladeshi Tribals Evicted For Tea Plantation Expansion Chatterjee, Pratap Article 2015 A Bangladeshi company has been accused of using armed men to evict ethnic minority communities in order to expand a tea plantation in Sreemangal in northeastern Bangladesh. The Battle for Brooklyn: The Abuse of Eminent Domain Levine, Bruce E. Article 2011 An article about the documentary Battle for Brooklyn, which chronicles the fight waged by residents and business owners of Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights neighborhood facing demolition of their property ... Borneo's Killer Dams: Mega-Dams in Sarawak Threaten Indigenous Tribes with Ethnocide Stephenson, Amanda Article 2014 Sarawak, Malaysia, is home to thousands of endemic species, forty indigenous groups, and one of the largest transboundary rainforests remaining in the world. The state is also suffering from one of th... Connexions Library: Africa Focus Website 2009 Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Africa. Deforestation, exploitation, hypocrisy: no end to Wilmar's palm oil land grabs Van Schaik,Anne;Ojo,Godwin Article 2015 With the deadline for the full implementation of Wilmar's 'No peat, no deforestation, no exploitation' promise, the oil palm giant is keen to push its green image in Europe. In Nigeria however, forest... Empire of Capital  Wood, Ellen Meiksins Book 2003 Capitalism makes possible a new form of domination by purely economic means, argues Ellen Meiksins Wood. So, surely, even the most seasoned White House hawk would prefer to exercise global hegemony in... The End of Poverty? Diaz, Philippe Film 2008 Today, global poverty has reached new levels because of unfair debt, trade and tax policies -- in other words, wealthy countries exploiting the weaknesses of poor, developing countries. Ethiopia: stealing the Omo Valley, destroying its ancient Peoples Perry, Megan Article 2015 A land grab is under way in Ethiopia, as the government pursues the wholesale seizure of indigenous lands to turn them over to dams and plantations for sugar, palm oil, cotton and biofuels run by fore... The Great Republican Land Heist: Cliven Bundy and the politicians who are plundering the West Ketcham, Christopher Article 2015 Cliven Bundy and other politicans have seized public land and ravaged the area as they exploit it for their economic purposes. Honduras: Garifuna communities resist eviction and theft of land Abbott, Jeff Article 2015 Pristine beaches, clear Caribbean waters, coral reefs, fertile land ... such is the homeland of the Garifuna people, writes Jeff Abbott. It's so lovely that outsiders are desperate to seize ever more ... In China's Inner Mongolia, mining spells misery for traditional herders Denyer, Simon Article 2015 China's relentless drive for minerals is wreaking havoc on pastoral lifestyles. The Invention of Capitalism: How a Self-Sufficient Peasantry was Whipped Into Industrial Wage Slaves Levine, Yasha Article Levine reviews the transition from peasantry to industrial labour and the impacts of captitalism in workers. Israel's settlements: 50 years of land theft explained Tahhan, Zena Article 2017 Today, between 600,000 and 750,000 Israelis live in these sizeable settlements, equivalent to roughly 11 percent of the total Jewish Israeli population. So why have these housing compounds caused so m... Land concentration, land grabbing and people's struggles in Europe Joan Article 2015 The hidden scandal of how a few big private business entities have gained control of ever-greater areas of European land. How these land elites have been actively supported by a huge injection of publ... The Land Grabbers: The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth Pearce, Fred Book 2012 How Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheikhs, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world. Mozambique's farmers battle to keep land in Nakarari Parenti, Enrico; Liberti, Stefano Article 2018 Parenti and Liberti examine the Nakarari community's ongoing resistance to commercial agricultural planning. Mozambique's Movement to End Land Grabs Lemos, Anabela; Adler, Simone (eds.) Article 2016 To corporations, the forest is only business. To communities, the forest is everything: trees, medicine, culture, spirituality. Land-grabbing and the removal of communities from forests and land break... Nicaraguans Fight to Save Land and Sovereignty from Canal Development Allison-Godfrey, Charles Article 2015 There has been a popular storm gathering to protest the proposed cross-Nicaragua canal. No Land No Food No Life Miller, Amy (director) Film/Video 2013 A film which explores sustainable small scale agriculture and the urgent call for an end to corporate global land grabs. This feature length documentary gives voice to those directly affected by combi... Occupied Canada Calihoo, Robert; Hunter, Robert Book 1991 An autobiography of Robert Calihoo, a native Canadian activist who struggled to regain the reserve that his father had sold out to the Canadian government. Occupy agriculture! Polish farmers sit in for land and freedom Rose, Julian Article 2015 At the heart of Poland's capital, Warsaw, farmers have founded a flourishing encampment known as the 'Green City', writes Julian Rose. It's a focus of protest against the sell-off of their land to agr... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 29, 2015: Land seizures and land take-overs Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2015 This issue of Other Voices focuses on the issue of land seizures and land take-overs. Also included: Greece's solidarity movement, and the challenges and opportunities it faces after the election of a... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 18, 2016 Serial Publication (Periodical) 2016 This issue of Other Voices features a wide range of issues. The topic of the week is homophobia, the hate that led to 49 deaths in Orlando last week, but which is present in greater or lesser form in ... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 2, 2016: Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Article 2016 Brexit, the British vote to leave the European Union, has thrown the political elites into turmoil and confusion. The referendum was supposed to be a safe political manoeuvre, a way to produce an appe... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 7, 2016: Depression and Joy Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2016 It's a difficult thing to measure, but there are strong reasons for believing that the number of people struggling with depression has increased significantly in recent decades. Despite the evidence t... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018: What are we eating? Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2018 What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant la... Palm Oil company plan to slow deforestation 'another land-grab' Colchester, Marcus Article 2014 A palm oil company's 'forest conservation' programme in Indonesia has ended up being a second land grab, seizing resources from local communities' control. Pipeline Rights vs Private Property Rights Hand, Mark Article 2016 The U.S. natural gas industry views private property with less reverence than it did when the shale gas revolution began 10 years ago. Companies are chomping at the bit to build new pipelines that wil... Relentless Persistence: Nonviolent Action in Latin America McManus, Philip and Schlabach, Gerald (ed.) Book 1991 There is in Latin America a tradition of "firmeza permanente," relentless persistence, which has enabled the people to preserve parts of their culture during five centuries of conquest and oppression. Saudi Star To Restart Rice Project on Disputed Anuak Lands in Ethiopia Hansia, Fatima Article 2014 Saudi Star Agricultural Development plans to spend $100 million in a rice export project in Gambella region of Ethiopia despite allegations of human rights violations surrounding the "villagization" p... Securing communal land rights for Tanzania's Indigenous Peoples Morlin-Yron, Sophie Article 2016 Commuting between land rights negotiations in the city and herding goats on the plains, Edward Loure is at once a traditional Maasai and a modern urbanite. That ability to straddle the two very differ... They Came to Take a County: Land Seizure Agitators, Propagandists, Politicians Fite, Katie Article 2016 Thanks to the Bundy Gang, public lands advocates became aware of elements of the Land Seizure movement that had been operating in the shadows. The curtain was drawn back on networks of agitators and p... Tianjin, China: a village 'land grab' protest spells trouble for the Communist state Hoffman,Samantha;Sullivan,Jonathan Article 2015 Rising anger by China's dispossessed (those displaced from their homes, villages and farms to make way for expanding cities and infrastructure) is posing a threat to the ruling regime. At the root of ... The Trickledown Revolution Roy, Arundhati Article 2010 The first step towards re-imagining a world gone terribly wrong would be to stop the annihilation of those who have a different imagination - an imagination that is outside of capitalism as well as co... Twiga Farm: The story of a Kenyan land grab Rinsum van, Leila Article 2014 On Tuesday, September 23, 2014, the residents of Twiga Farm marched through the streets of Nairobi to hand in a petition to the National Assembly. Their demand was an investigation in the unlawful evi... West Bank land belongs to Jews says Israeli judge Rapoport, Meron Article 2009 Major Adrian Agassi is a senior Israeli judge who first served in the legal department that oversaw the confiscation of land in the West Bank to build Jewish settlements and was then appointed to the ... Connexions Directory of Groups & WebsitesRam's Horn A watchdog report on food issues and the agribusiness industry. Sources LibraryColombian farmers risk death to reclaim lost land Brodzinsky, Sibylla 2013 The government wants to correct decades of 'land reform in reverse'. But powerful criminal, armed and business interests are ranged against the country's displaced peasants. Commercial Pressures on Land A portal created by the International Land Coalition informing evidence based debate on large scale land-based investments and their alternatives. Landowner refuses to surrender property for Energy East pipeline A landowner fights a big corporation for his forest Dickson, Janice 2014 Rick Verge was shocked when a TransCanada land agent knocked on his door in Titusville, N.B., last year and offered him $1000 to conduct a land survey in exchange for his signature. He refused. He sai... |
