by David Meek, University of Georgia Adora sits on a rock-hard couch, leaning back to blow smoke upwards where it is refracted by the daylight, streaming through cracks in her clapboard house. Adora...
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“More war than night”: Violence, resistance, and territory in Pará, Brazil
Cash crops in the wildlands: Different worlds are at stake
by Naomi Millner, University of Bristol “No-one is forced . This is an absolute lie. The people around Gambella are inhabiting the place in a very scattered manner” Ethiopian government (quoted...
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New enclosures of the carbon market, Part II: Reimagining the commons
by Naomi Millner, University of Bristol In my last post I reflected on a bizarre paradox – the 'carbon credits' with which governments buy out their emissions are providing justification for the...
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New enclosures of the carbon market, Part I: Sub-Saharan ‘land-grabs’ as accumulation by dispossession
by Naomi Millner, University of Bristol In late September 2011, news of another ‘land grabbing’ fiasco briefly hit the international headlines (Al Jazeera 2011; Lang 2011; Vidal 2011a; 2011b)...
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