Holmes, G (2014) What is a land grab? Exploring green grabs, conservation, and private protected areas in southern Chile. Journal of Peasant Studies, 41 (4). 547 - 567. ISSN 0306-6150
Abstract
Discussions of land grabs for various purposes, including environmental ends, have expanded in recent years, yet land grabbing remains inconsistently defined and poorly understood. Our ability to assess the extent to which land grabs are occurring, and to identify the mixture of factors driving land and resource acquisition, is limited. This paper assesses whether a land grab for conservation is happening in southern Chile, and identifies the various driving forces that combine to drive land acquisitions in the region, based on a detailed exploration of the recent massive growth in privately owned protected areas in the region. This paper finds that the various dominant definitions of land grabs each apply only partially to southern Chile, that land grabs for conservation need to be understood as the latest stage in a longer process by which the region's natural resources are incorporated into the Chilean and the global economy, and that green grabs interact in various ways with broader resource grabs, particularly for forestry and hydroelectricity. This case study demonstrates the limitations of some definitions of land grabs, particularly their focus on capitalist accumulation within land grabs, their international nature and their emphasis on legal processes.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2014, Taylor & Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Journal of Peasant Studies on 28/11/14, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2014.919266 |
Keywords: | land grabs; green grabs; conservation; protected areas; neoliberalism; Chile; landgrabbing |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 22 Jan 2015 14:58 |
Last Modified: | 21 Apr 2017 03:30 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2014.919266 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/03066150.2014.919266 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:82627 |