This paper is a qualitative case study of two land acquisition cases highlighting the empirical effect of legal reforms … on land use policy over time in Indonesia. Under the Suharto regime, land acquisition in the public interest was often … legal framework for land acquisition, which the government enacted in 2012, redefined the basis on which the state could …

process of land-grabbing in early modern England, colonial North America, and contemporary Palestine, Enclosure shows how … patterns of exclusion and privatization have emerged across time and geography. That the same moral, legal, and cartographic … arguments were copied by enclosers of land in very different historical environments challenges Israel's current rationale as …

mineral-rich states. It looks at the nuances of land and resource politics and summarizes the long-standing land acquisition …-capital relationship in redrawing geographical boundaries. Highlighting the reasons for large-scale land conflicts in India, scale of … stalled investments, social movements, and evolution of land acquisition and mining laws, the book examines what led to the …