Amidst intensified competition for land available to private investors in sectors such as mining, agribusiness and forestry, disputes over land between transnational investors and local communities are emerging in many parts of the world as an increasingly visible form of transnational conflict....

Throughout recent economic history, social struggle over the regulation and distribution of social costs, benefits and risks associated with capitalist economic relations have been both pervasive and continually evolving. Such contestation surrounding how capitalist forms of accumulation,...

It is now commonplace for the language of accountability to be invoked in debates about transnational power and governance. Yet there is little agreement on whether ‘accountability' takes an analogous form between national and transnational governance domains, and thus whether transnational...

Around the world peoples' lives are affected by the actions of businesses. In addition to positive impacts on livelihoods, ideas or technologies, business activities are also sometimes associated with significant human rights abuses – for example through land dispossession and forced...