Discourses and Practices in Land-Grabbing^*

Abstract

Summary

Land is a main component of the earth system and one of the ‘goods’ over which humans have waged many wars and conflicts throughout history. In this chapter, I present the empirical and discursive dynamics that lead to ecological discrimination regarding land. I focus on three means by which Southern land is legally grabbed: private armies, discourses and laws. Much land dispossession is illegal, but in this chapter I focus on the legal forms because they are equally harmful and most of the times invisible and thus more difficult to prevent.

Citation

Goyes, D.R. (2019), "Discourses and Practices in Land-Grabbing^*", Southern Green Criminology: A Science to End Ecological Discrimination (Perspectives on Crime, Law and Justice in the Global South), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 79-87. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78769-229-920191008