Land Grab as a consequence of Capitalism and Globalization, the Colombian case
Keywords:
Capitalism, Capitalist Landnahme, dispossession, Land grab, Neoliberal globalization, primitive accumulation.Abstract
This paper intends to show how the issue of land grab could be considered as a consequence of the expansion of capitalism in a framework of the neoliberal globalization and as an example it is considered the case of Colombia. At first a theoretical framework will introduce the concept of expansion of capitalism and the neoliberal globalization from different writers; starting with Karl Marx and the concept of Primitive Accumulation, then Rosa Luxemburg and the Capitalist Landnahme and David Harvey with the concept of accumulation by dispossession. A second part of theory includes the approaches of Saskia Sassen, Susan George and Vandana Shiva, which consider land grab as part of the capitalist expansion. Those approaches also contemplate the consequences of the dispossession of land such as displacement, poverty, hunger and inequality. In a way to see how this process has been developed in the world this paper includes the case of Colombia, which highlights the main considerations about land grab in this country.
Author Biography
Ángela Piedad Suárez Torres, Fundación Universitaria Juan de Castellanos
Internacionalista, Universidad del Rosario. Máster en Política Internacional, Universidad Newcastle UK. Docente Fundación Universitaria Juan de Castellanos
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Food crisis and the global land grab Documentary Planet for Sale2 [Online video]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=IU1-PpxqeZc& feature=endscreen
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Haarstad, H., Amen, M. & Lera St. C. A. (2012). Social Movements, the Poor and the New Politics of the Americas, Globalizations, 9:6, 741-752.
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Sassen, S. (2010). A Savage Sorting of Winners and Losers: Contemporary Versions of Primitive Accumulation. Globalizations, 7:1, 23-50.
Sassen, S. (2013). Land Grabs Today: Feeding the Disassembling of National Territory. Globalizations, 10:1, 25-46.
Shiva, V. (2000). Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply. London: Zed Books.
Shiva, V. (2008). Soil not Oil: Climate Change, Peak Oil, and Food Security. London: Zed Books.
Smita Narula “The Global Land Rush: Markets, rights, and the politics of food” Stanford Journal of International Law, 49 (2013):114
Susan George on Neoliberalism [Online video]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_viNHVzadeM
Stephens, Ph. (2013). The Principles of Responsible Agricultural Investment. Globalizations, 10:1, 187-192.
Thomson, F. (2011). The Agrarian Question and Violence in Colombia: Conflict and Development. Journal of Agrarian Change 11:3, 321-356.
UNHCR, The UN Refugee Agency, “Internally Displaced People Figures”. Retrieved from http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49c3646c23.html, 8 September 2013)
Wilson, T. D. (2012). Primitive accumulation and the Labour Subsidies to Capitalism. Review Radical Political Economics, 44 (2), 201-212.
Woertz, E. (2013). The Governance of Gulf Agro-Investments. Globalizations, 10:1, 87-104.
Wolford W., Borras Jr. S. M., Hall, R., Scoones, I. & White, B. (2013) Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land. Development and Change, 44:2, 189-210.
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Suárez Torres, Ángela P. (2014). Land Grab as a consequence of Capitalism and Globalization, the Colombian case. Global Iure, 2, 245–266. Retrieved from https://revista.jdc.edu.co/index.php/giure/article/view/283
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