Trophy lands: why elites acquire land and why it matters

Autor:	Charles Geisler
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Power (social and political) Geography Sovereignty Economy media_common.quotation_subject Prestige Land law Development Land tenure Rent-seeking Land reform Option value media_common
Zdroj:	Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement. 36:241-257
ISSN:	2158-9100 0225-5189
Popis:	This article explores the motivations, and some of the consequences, of concentrated land holdings among elites. Within the characterisation of land deals as rent-seeking behaviour, three inducements (power, prestige and option value) are found to motivate elites in both the Global North and South. Among the many social and environmental costs of land concentration, two are highlighted here: the privatisation of social property and the profligate use of labour. The article concludes with a call to reframe land reform in terms of land sovereignty, as a means of countering land concentration and the rent-seeking behaviours that animate it.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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