Zeffert, H (2018) The Lake Home: International Law and the Global Land Grab. Asian Journal of International Law, 8 (2). pp. 432-460. ISSN 2044-2513
Abstract
Home is not a familiar concept in international law. This paper looks at land grabbing and international law from the perspective of home. Through a case-study of a land grab in the context of a World Bank development project at Boeung Kak Lake in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, it argues that international law is involved in profound transformations of home. By making visible how experiences of loss, suffering, and struggle, as well as radical engagement, emerge from international law’s “homemaking” work, it also argues that the concept of home opens up a terrain of experience that cannot be captured or expressed in international law. The perspective from home in the land-grabbing debate is particularly important where not only is land at risk of capture for economic gain, but so too are the personal lifeworlds that homes represent.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Asian Journal of International Law 2017 . This is an author produced version of a paper published in Asian Journal of International Law. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Law (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 08 Nov 2017 11:28 |
Last Modified: | 14 Aug 2018 07:54 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/S204425131700011X |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:123315 |