From Primitive Accumulation to Regimes of Dispossession

Levien, Michael

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“…By using coercive power to appropriate and allocate land and resources for 'development' or 'conservation,' state politics and elites have been playing a key role in driving processes of dispossession [47,48]. Overall, global processes coupled with domestic politics and economic and historical factors shape the nature and effects of land appropriations [17,23,41,49].…”

Section: Appropriation and In Situ Displacement: A Conceptual Frameworkmentioning

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“Medium-Scale” Forestland Grabbing in the Southwestern Highlands of Ethiopia: Impacts on Local Livelihoods and Forest Conservation

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2018

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Abstract:Tropical forest provides a crucial portion of sustenance in many rural communities, although it is increasingly under pressure from appropriations of various scales. This study investigated the impacts of medium-scale forestland grabbing on local livelihoods and forest conservation in the southwestern highlands of Ethiopia. Data were generated through interviews, discussions and document review. The results indicate that state transfer of part of the forestland since the late 1990s to investors for coffee production created in situ displacement-a situation where farmers remained in place but had fully or partially lost access to forest-that disrupted farmers' livelihoods and caused conflicts between them and the investors. Court cases about the appropriated land and related imprisonment, inflicted financial and opportunity costs on farmers. Farmers considered the livelihood opportunities created by the companies insufficient to compensate for loss of forest access. Companies' technology transfers to farmers and contributions to foreign currency earnings from coffee exports have not yet materialized. Forest conservation efforts have been negatively affected by deforestation caused by conversion to coffee plantations and by farmers' efforts to secure rights to forestland by more intensive use. The medium-scale forestland grabbing has been detrimental to farmers' livelihoods and forest conservation in a way that recalls criticism of large-and mega-scale land grabbing since [2007][2008]. The overall failure to achieve the objectives of transferring forestland to investors highlights a critical need to shift institutional supports to smallholders' informal forest access and management practices for better development and conservation outcomes.

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Section: Appropriation and In Situ Displacement: A Conceptual Frameworkmentioning

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“Medium-Scale” Forestland Grabbing in the Southwestern Highlands of Ethiopia: Impacts on Local Livelihoods and Forest Conservation

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“…Other Marxist scholars identify a range of contemporary mechanisms of dispossession: for instance, important means of rural dispossession Tania Murray Li (:71–72) distinguishes are the closing of the forest frontier for conservation, the seizure of land by the state or state‐supported corporations and the dispossession of small‐scale farmers as a result of their exposure to global competition from agricultural systems backed by subsidies and preferential tariffs; while Glassman () considers legally enforced debt repayment and the exploitation of unwaged domestic labour in the realm of social reproduction. As Levien (:148) observes, dispossession has been variously used to refer to: proletarianization of peasants and formation of a class of agrarian capitalists; a gradual process of class differentiation; to the use of debt as an effective lever of primitive accumulation, and to the diversion of agricultural surplus into industrialization. He proposes the concept of “regimes of dispossession” to illuminate the diverse forms of coercive redistribution and accumulation that serve different class interests at different periods and places (Levien :153).…”

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Dispossession and the Depletion of Social Reproduction

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2017

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Gender is largely under-theorized in the now well-developed literature on dispossession; this paper contributes to the analysis of the gender dimensions of dispossession by bringing the literature on dispossession into conversation with the feminist literature on social reproduction, specifically, depletion of social reproduction. Drawing on qualitative field research, the paper provides a gendered analysis of the multiple vectors of dispossession affecting the Miyana, a Muslim community living in the Little Rann of Kutch, an estuarine zone in central Gujarat within which prawn harvesting and salt production are their symbiotic seasonal livelihood activities. Using the concept of depletion as a diagnostic tool, I argue that the assessment of depletion due to dispossession requires investigation of the levels of mitigation, replenishment or transformation available to individuals, households and communities within the circuits of production and social reproduction.

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“…Forschung zur Enteignung ländlicher Bevölkerung (Lund, 2011;Levien, 2015;Hall, 2013) und der Einhegung von Allmenden (commons) (Peluso und Lund, 2011;Akram-Lodhi, 2007) hat nicht an Aktualität und Brisanz verloren. Im Gegensatz zur historischen Epoche, die Karl Marx beschreibt, wird im globalen Kapitalismus des 21.…”

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Land als Ressource, Boden und Landschaft: Materialität, Relationalität und neue Agrarfragen in der Politischen Ökologie

Münster

Poerting

2016

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Kurzfassung. The Anthropocene reorients the agrarian question as an ecological question of planetary scale. Rather than resolving the inherent tension between political economy and the biophysical environment by moving political ecology closer to the natural sciences, we propose an active engagement with impulses from the environmental humanities and anthropological engagements with alternative ontologies. The relational political ecology of agriculture that we outline in this article draws on feminist science studies, multispecies ethnography, new materialism and critical geography. We show the relevance of a relational approach to agriculture as a natureculture entanglement by reviewing three conceptualisations of land in political ecology in relation to our anthropological research in South India (Münster) and geographical research in Northern Pakistan (Poerting). Notions of land as resource, land as soil and land as landscape respectively exemplify shifts in theoretical and political engagements with agriculture in the Anthropocene. A relational political ecology of agriculture incorporates these theoretical sensibilities and brings them in conversation with ontological politics of agro-ecological movements who respond to the variegated crises of the anthropocene. We suggest a perspective on agrarian landscape assemblages as coproduced by histories of capitalist transformations and the (affective) relations between humans, other species and materials.

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From Primitive Accumulation to Regimes of Dispossession

Cited by 47 publications

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“Medium-Scale” Forestland Grabbing in the Southwestern Highlands of Ethiopia: Impacts on Local Livelihoods and Forest Conservation

“Medium-Scale” Forestland Grabbing in the Southwestern Highlands of Ethiopia: Impacts on Local Livelihoods and Forest Conservation

Dispossession and the Depletion of Social Reproduction

Land als Ressource, Boden und Landschaft: Materialität, Relationalität und neue Agrarfragen in der Politischen Ökologie

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