Development and Change
March 2013
Volume 44, Issue 2
Pages 189–471
Issue edited by: Wendy Wolford, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones, Ben White

Published by Wiley-Blackwell (Oxford) on behalf of the Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Development and Change appears six times per year.

This issue of Development and Change is linked to the work of the Land Deal Politics Initiative, supported by the Future Agricultures land theme.

Governing Global Land Deals The Role of the State in the Rush for Land
Wendy Wolford, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones and Ben White

State Involvement, Land Grabbing and Counter-insurgency in Columbia
Jacobo Grajales

Road Mapping: Megaprojects and Land Grabs in the Northern Guatemalan Lowlands
Liza Grandia

Land Regularization in Brazil and the Global Land Grab
Gustavo de L.T. Oliveira

Negotiating Environmental Sovereignty in Costa Rica
Dana J. Graef

Building the Politics Machine: Tools for ‘Resolving’ the Global Land Grab
Michael B. Dwyer

Indirect Dispossession: Domestic Power Imbalances and Foreign Access to Land in Mozambique
Madeleine Fairbairn

Competition over Authority and Access: International Land Deals in Madagascar
Perrine Burnod, Mathilde Gingembre and Rivo Andrianirina Ratsialonana

Regimes of Dispossession: From Steel Towns to Special Economic Zones
Michael Levien

The Political Construction of ‘Wasteland’: Governmentality, Land Acquisition and Social Inequality in South India
Jennifer Baka

Chinese Land-Based Interventions in Senegal
Lila Buckley

Identity, Territory and Land Conflict in Brazil
LaShandra P. Sullivan