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Grabbing Back: Essays Against the Global Land Grab
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"Land grabs are a global phenomenon of our times, driven by the ever increasing demands of both global corporations and the governments with which they are allied. But as this powerful and timely book demonstrates, ordinary citizens, small farmers and ordinary citizens around the world are standing up to defend their own with passion and ingenuity, and they are recording s
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Paperback, 264 pages
Published
July 1st 2014
by AK Press
(first published May 19th 2014)
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An excellent collection of essays from around the world concerning a wide range of efforts to re-claim land in the face of land appropriations (often extra-judicial) by governments for industrial purposes, disuse, and ill-use--acts committed in the name of subsistence agriculture, non-commercial recreational use, and for use as public commons. We live in times of prostitution political ethos, the salient feature of which everything and everybody is--or ought to be--for sale. These essays describ
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面對全球盲搶地趨勢，無權無勢者可以如何搶返轉頭?
Grabbing Back provides an insightful response to the phenomenon of global land grab. It is particularly relevant to Hong Kong with the North-East New Territories Development coming forth.
Grabbing Back provides an insightful response to the phenomenon of global land grab. It is particularly relevant to Hong Kong with the North-East New Territories Development coming forth.
Jul 02, 2017
Max Rameau
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