Does Commons Grabbing Lead to Resilience Grabbing? The Anti-Politics Machine of Neo-Liberal Development and Local Responses

• Other Authors: Haller, Tobias (Editor), Käser, Fabian (Editor), Ngutu, Mariah (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Humanities; Social interaction; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; pastoral resilience; co-management concept; decentralization; holistic management; water-shed management plan; commercialization of herding; Common Pool Resources (CPRs); qualitative; agro-industrial food system; actors; formal and informal rules and regulations; export horticulture; common pool resources; land; water; Laikipia County; land grabbing; resilience; commons; land concessions; communal land titling; Southeast Asia; forest land governance; Mau Forest; Ogiek; institutions; Community Land Act and customary law; large-scale land acquisitions; green energy; corporate social responsibility; food systems; agroecosystems and agroecosystem service; resilience and commons grabbing; gender; sustainable energy; development policy; common-pool resources; common property; land tenure transformations; resilience, social anthropology; conservationism; identity; commons grabbing; protected areas; institution shopping; institutional change; Ecuador; large scale land acquisitions; social anthropology; n/a
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This Special Issue contributes to the debate on land grabbing as commons grabbing with a special focus on how the development of state institutions (formal laws and regulations for agrarian development and compensations) and voluntary corporate social responsibility (CRS) initiatives have enabled th...