The biofuel connection – transnational activism and the palm oil boom

Pye, Oliver

doi:10.1080/03066150.2010.512461

Cited by 74 publications

(48 citation statements)

References 19 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…The analysis shows that, in contrast with the world largest palm oil producing countriesIndonesia and Malaysia (Hall, 2011;Pye, 2010) -, the trajectories of expansion of the palm oil frontier in the 'space-of-flows' in Colombia between 2000 and 2010 were not strongly influenced by the international market. Conversely, expansion in the 'space-of-flows' was characterised by an increasing production of palm oil to be processed into biodiesel in order to supply a policy-driven national biofuel market controlled by national palm oil producers.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As Indonesia and Malaysia account for about 85% of the global palm oil production (Abdullah, 2011), it is the expansion of the palm oil frontier in these countries that has caught most of the attention of the scholarship on the political economy/political ecology of the contemporary palm oil expansion (Cooke, 2002;Cramb and Curry, 2012;Julia and White, 2012;McCarthy, 2010;McCarthy and Cramb, 2009;Pye, 2010). There are only a few political ecology studies about contemporary expansion of the palm oil frontier in other producing countries (See for example Alonso-Fradejas, 2012 on the palm oil expansion in Guatemala, and Curry and Koczberski, 2009 in Papua New Guinea).…”

Section: The 2000-2010 Expansion Of the Palm Oil Frontier In Colombiamentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Access, power and justice in commodity frontiers : the political ecology of access to land and palm oil expansion in Colombia

Marin-Burgos¹

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The 2000-2010 Expansion Of the Palm Oil Frontier In Colombiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Access, power and justice in commodity frontiers : the political ecology of access to land and palm oil expansion in Colombia

Marin-Burgos¹

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…The outcomes of processes of contention are uncertain; and these involve shifting alliances and variable use of discourses by movements and counter-movements (Pye, 2010). Nonetheless, contention for Tilly (2008) is not a disorderly, random process of disagreements and disputes.…”

Section: Consequences Of Contestation and Conclusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The resulting politics involves shifting movements and counter-movements vying for control through the strategic use of images, discourse, and maps (Pye, 2010): a politics we see as best understood theoretically as contentious performances, and, over time, as episodes of contention that build on existing land claims and struggles (Tarrow, 2010;Tilly, 2008;Leitner et al, 2008). This approach builds on work linking political geography with contentious politics, as in Larsson's (2007) study of mapping, land rights, and reform in Thailand.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Biofuels and the politics of mapmaking

Neville

Dauvergne

2012

Political Geography

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Always cite the published version, so the author(s) will receive recognition through services that track citation counts, e.g. Scopus. If you need to cite the page number of the TSpace version (original manuscript or accepted manuscript) because you cannot access the published version, then cite the TSpace version in addition to the published version using the permanent URI (handle) found on the record page. Abstract: On a world scale companies and governments are acquiring tracts of land from rural communities across the developing world in what some describe as a global "land grab." Yet looking into local settings reveals that negotiations and arrangements are often piecemeal and halting, with little resemblance to a coordinated seizure of land. Conflicting maps, overlapping territorial claims, and unclear acquisition processes are creating land disputes, mistrust, and ambiguity. Resulting cycles of contention are enabling companies to obtain-even appropriate-some land. Still, in at least some locales the process is doing more to undermine development opportunities for all parties.To probe into these local politics of mapmaking, this article draws on fieldwork from 2010-11 in Tanzania's Rufiji District, located in the lower floodplain of the Rufiji River. Companies, one might surmise, should be able to exploit information asymmetries to wrest control of land from local villagers. Interviews, primary documents, and field observations reveal, however, that this is not occurring as much as one might expect along the lower Rufiji River. The politics of such land acquisitions, we argue, would seem to be better understood in terms of cycles of contentious politics, as an ongoing process in which movements and counter-movements vie for control through the strategic use of images, maps, and discourse.This research extends the understanding of the processes changing global agriculture and energy production by bridging the frames of the "politics of mapping" and "cycles of contention" to more fully reveal how and why control over land and resources is shifting in the global South.

show abstract

“…GRAIN brings resources to the table that locals may not possess: independent research and analysis; and alliance building -both very useful skill sets that connect socially marginalized farmers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to larger networks. Working with other socio-environmental justice movements and organizations around themes such as agrofuels, forestry, food sovereignty and climate justice, GRAIN has assisted in building up a transnational contentious discourse that has had a significant impact on the positions of international governance institutions concerned with agriculture, including the World Bank, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, and the UN Special Rapporteur on Food (Pye, 2010;Rosset and Martinez-Torres, 2005;Holifield, 2004;Castree, 2011).…”

Section: Transnational Activismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nodes of resistance to green grabbing: a political ecology

Weeber

2016

Environ Soc Psychol

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Green grabbing is the privatization or appropriation of land for purposes of advancing a "green" economy while excluding local, indigenous people from natural resources. This is a problem of global scale that has arisen mainly during a historical period when free market, neo-liberal policies have dominated the world economy. The academic literature on the subject rarely mentions resistance to green grabbing, nor are there many efforts to critically and systematically examine the social dynamics of this process. We consider both what works and what fails during the process of opposition, as well as the social psychology of risk taking among both green grabbers and opponents. The paper concludes with a way forward proffering the resistance.

show abstract

The biofuel connection – transnational activism and the palm oil boom

Cited by 74 publications

References 19 publications

Access, power and justice in commodity frontiers : the political ecology of access to land and palm oil expansion in Colombia

Access, power and justice in commodity frontiers : the political ecology of access to land and palm oil expansion in Colombia

Biofuels and the politics of mapmaking

Nodes of resistance to green grabbing: a political ecology

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About