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Series: Critical Agrarian Studies
Questions about land control have invigorated thinkers in agrarian studies and economic history since the nineteenth century. ‘Exclusion’, ‘alienation’, ‘expropriation’, ‘dispossession’, and ‘violence’ animate histories of land use, property rights, and territories. More recently, agrarian...
To Be Published August 21st 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
Horseracing, thoroughbred breeding and gambling on racing are global industries worth several hundred billion dollars. They are also industries facing serious challenges, from the rise of alternative forms of leisure gambling to concerns about the ethical treatment of animals in all equestrian...
To Be Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Critical Agrarian Studies
The struggle over land has been the central issue in Zimbabwe ever since white settlers began to carve out large farms over a century ago. Their monopolisation of the better-watered half of the land was the focus of the African war of liberation war, and was partially modified following...
To Be Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
Series: CDS Current Issues Series
This book illustrates the ways in which communities can strengthen the links and set the stage for long-term partnerships between sustainable agriculture and sustainable rural community development initiatives. It provides lessons learned, first, from the community development...
To Be Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
Series: CDS Current Issues Series
The role of economic development in communities is multi-faceted, having an array of impacts and implications. This volume explores the relationships between economic development and community development, focusing on the aspects that impact communities such as social capital, participation, and...
To Be Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
Series: CDS Current Issues Series
Food is an essential component in community development. Whether in reference to a local or regional food system, food insecurity, or building programs around it, food has become a focus in community development approaches in many towns, regions and even at the country level. For example, farmers...
To Be Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture
In recent years the issue of food security has become centre stage in the global agenda. Since the 2007/8 food price crisis, a number of works have been published on the topic, addressed from various perspectives: economic, social and cultural, environmental, agronomic and...
To Be Published November 8th 2012 by Routledge
Drawing on workplace ethnography at a farm in the East of England and interviews with former participants on the UK’s temporary foreign worker programme, the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme, this book contributes to understanding of the everyday work and living experiences of migrant workers...
To Be Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Rethinking Globalizations
While land grabbing per se is not a new phenomenon having historical precedents in the eras of imperialism, the character, scale, pace, orientation and key drivers of the recent wave of land grabs is a distinct historical event closely tied to the changing dynamics of the global agri-food, feed and...
To Be Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
