Chinese Land‐Based Interventions in Senegal

Buckley, Lila

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“…Borras et al., ; Oliveira, 2013). Whereas older accounts often simplistically portrayed land grabbing as carried out by large corporations against local inhabitants, it has now been more accurately recast as a dynamic negotiation among state actors, corporate players and citizens (Buckley, ; Gironde and Golay, ; Grajales, ).…”

Section: Literature Review: Explaining Local Responses To Land Grabbingmentioning

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“…In relation to land grabbing, a particular phenomenon that we have seen in recent years is the linking of resistance to indigenous identities. Resistance discourses increasingly draw on the cultural and symbolic value that land has in many indigenous communities (Alonso‐Fradejas, ; Buckley, ; Escobar, ). Indeed, land disputes are often underpinned by contests over the meaning of land.…”

Section: Missing Links: Connecting Against Land Grabbingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Organizing against Land Grabbing in Cambodia: Exploring Missing Links

Verkoren¹,

Ngin²

2017

Development and Change

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Using a case study of Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) in Cambodia, this article adds to emerging literature on local responses to land grabbing. While much of this literature has focused on political opportunity structures, this article looks at the agency of local groups organizing in response to land grabbing. Noting that organization and connections have been ‘missing links’ in the literature, the authors draw on thinking on collective action and social networking. Their findings highlight the importance of identity politics in the development of movements responding to land grabbing. Transnational discourses and external support also play a significant role in local responses to land grabbing in general, and in the modest success achieved by the PLCN in particular. All this complicates the traditional understanding of political opportunity structures and calls for a more dynamic approach.

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Section: Literature Review: Explaining Local Responses To Land Grabbingmentioning

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Section: Missing Links: Connecting Against Land Grabbingmentioning

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Organizing against Land Grabbing in Cambodia: Exploring Missing Links

Verkoren¹,

Ngin²

2017

Development and Change

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“…As China's overseas engagement gains increasing momentum, finding ways to remove the established international stereotypes about China's overseas activities will be crucial for both China and those interacting with Chinese actors (Buckley 2013). Against the macro four general narratives of China's agro-SOEs overseas, this article, using the concept of business borderlands to investigate a farm case in Tanzania, reveals the significance of China's domestic business development trajectories and legacies to its overseas commercial operations, as well as the complexity of the embedded mechanisms of Chinese business in host countries at micro level.…”

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“…It has stimulated the most hotly debated international imaginaries of China, the 'visible hands' behind its overseas expansion, along with a possible new variety of capitalism challenging the current international business regime and global governance (Alden and Davies 2006;Gill and Reilly 2007;Kaplinsky and Morris 2009), coupled with global food security, poverty reduction and land/resource grab issues (Bräutigam and Tang 2009;Cotula, Vermeulen, Leonard and Keeley 2009;Smaller and Mann 2009;Görgen, Rudloff, Simons, Ullenberg, Vath and Wimmer 2009;Hairong and Sautman 2010;Bräutigam and Zhang 2013;Buckley 2013), which all rank as the topmost issues of concern in the international media, academic and policy circles. Specifically, four primary narratives debating the nature and significance of China's SOE overseas investment, particularly agricultural investment in resource-abundant African and Latin-American countries, can be summarised as follows: China Inc., new coloniser, alternative developer and global system learner.…”

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Business Borderlands: China's Overseas State Agribusiness

Gao

2014

IDS Bulletin

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In the context of widespread interests in China's agro-state-owned enterprises (SOEs), this article starts demystifying four narratives prevailing internationally. In this intellectual landscape, the article coins an innovative approach, 'farm as business borderland' to investigate an agro-SOE in Tanzania. Based on the ethnographic case study, the article presents the tensions arising between the case farm and its Beijing headquarters on the one hand, and between Chinese managers and local stakeholders on the other. The authors examine the reasons why the travelling business bureaucracy rationalities from Beijing to Tanzania works and how this is adapted locally in the farm's daily practices. The authors also explore why and how Chinese managers' footloose expatriate lifestyle is not as relevant as normally expected in constructing convergence with locals. Finally the article discusses the implications of the new approach on international development inquiry and global governance practices.

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“…Rather, it is meant to illustrate that an ethnographic approach — either in Africa or elsewhere where Chinese investors and managers are beginning to play an important role in the organization of labour — may uncover both resistance to and the appeal of their interventions and discourses. Indeed, a similar approach has led to the discovery of precisely such ambivalence among Tanzanian (Zhang et al., ) and Senegalese (Buckley, ) workers on Chinese‐owned farms, and among Ghanaian workers in Chinese‐owned retail business (Giese, ).…”

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Chinese Investors, Labour Discipline and Developmental Cosmopolitanism

Nyíri

2013

Development and Change

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In recent years, China has emerged as a major source of investment and development assistance across the ‘developing world’, triggering the rise of global networks that in some ways stand apart from the existing order of globalization. This article, based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews in Cambodia from 2009 to 2011, begins to explore the significance of Chinese investors and managers, a new globe‐trotting elite involved in projects around the world. Understanding how this new Chinese mobile class sees its mission is crucial for making sense of how China's ‘rise’ may be re‐scripting globalization and, specifically, how it may be offering new visions of modernity. The author's research suggests that Chinese investors and managers engage in a developmental discourse which is reminiscent partly of colonial days and partly of the heyday of post‐war developmentalism. This discourse articulates the possibility and necessity of progress imposed by outside actors, and is accompanied by measures that inculcate a strict Fordist labour discipline. At the same time, the author argues, it may also contain the seeds of a new developmental cosmopolitanism.

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Chinese Land‐Based Interventions in Senegal

Cited by 10 publications

References 17 publications

Organizing against Land Grabbing in Cambodia: Exploring Missing Links

Organizing against Land Grabbing in Cambodia: Exploring Missing Links

Business Borderlands: China's Overseas State Agribusiness

Chinese Investors, Labour Discipline and Developmental Cosmopolitanism

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