Overview
- Political economy analysis of the land rush in Africa
- Detailed national case studies on countries heavily impacted by large scale land acquisitions
- Provides up to date information, critical insights and nuanced analysis on land rush
- Critical analysis of the nexus between law, power and economic development in Africa
- Adds nuance to the intricate political economy of land governance in Africa
- Essential resource for students, researchers, advocates and policy makers
Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Land-Development Nexus: Grand Discourses, Social Injustice and Contestations
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Informality and ‘New’ Customary Land Tenure Landscapes
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Formalization, Domestic Agency and Legacies of Legal Pluralism
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Reviews
“The transnational land rush in Africa: a decade after the spike … is a good collection of works on the recent transnational land rush in Africa, a decade after the 2007/2008 spike in commodity prices. … the book is an engaging collection with thought-provoking perspectives on the sources, drivers, resistance and ramifications of the transnational land rush in Africa a decade after the 2007/2008 spike.” (Abdul-Salam Ibrahim, Review of African Political Economy, July 23, 2021)
“Drawing on in-depth country studies from across the African continent, this important new book offers invaluable insights not only on the longer-term impacts of extractivism, but also on connecting international processes to local dynamics and – ultimately – challenging Eurocentric accounts of IPE as a discipline and a field of inquiry.” (Lorenzo Cotula, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED))“Through an open and empirical approach, this book investigates what happened to the African land rush a decade later. While the overall story told sounds familiar with its cast of winners and losers, the book provides new insights, updated knowledge and important nuance to the intricate political economy of land governance in Africa.” (Tor A. Benjaminsen, Norwegian University of Life Sciences)
“This edited book, which puts together a collection of relevant works based on a range of studies in many African countries, is an exemplary political economy analysis of what has happened across Africa since the contemporary global land grabbing occurred more than a decade ago. While the topic and questions addressed may sound familiar to many readers who have been tracking the issue over the last decade, this volume provides a much needed up to date information, critical insights and nuanced analysis, which place it among the best in Africa’s land rush scholarship and beyond.” (Tsegaye Moreda, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam)
“While the stories have faded from the headlines in the decade or so since the trend first emerged, discussions about the implications of large-scale land investments have persisted among academics and development practitioners. The Transnational Land Rush in Africa manages to both highlight emerging trends and provide an analysis that is rich in contextual detail. The book is an important and timely contribution to discourses on the nexus between law, power and economic development in Africa.” (David Deng, Human Rights Lawyer and Researcher, Detcro LLC)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Logan Cochrane is Assistant Professor in the Department of Global and International Studies at Carleton University, Canada as well as Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University, Ethiopia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Transnational Land Rush in Africa
Book Subtitle: A Decade After the Spike
Editors: Logan Cochrane, Nathan Andrews
Series Title: International Political Economy Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60789-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60788-3Published: 02 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60791-3Published: 02 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-60789-0Published: 01 February 2021
Series ISSN: 2662-2483
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2491
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 287
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Relations, African Politics, Development Studies