Land acquisition through bricolage? Politics of smallholder acacia plantation expansion in upland Central Vietnam

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serval:BIB_4015C8FA630F
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
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Titre
Land acquisition through bricolage? Politics of smallholder acacia plantation expansion in upland Central Vietnam
Périodique
The Journal of Peasant Studies
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Nguyen Van Hai Thi, Kull Christian A.
ISSN
0306-6150
1743-9361
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
07/03/2022
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
50
Numéro
4
Pages
1501-1528
Langue
anglais
Résumé
Commodity booms can lead to intense pressure to access land resources. We investigate a case in which villagers, far from being passive victims of land grabs, acquire land themselves by navigating between customary institutions and state policies seeking to foster a forest transition and rural development. Based on fieldwork in an upland forest-rich commune in Central Vietnam, we describe specific mechanisms of enclosure, encroachment, theft, and re-claiming by which villagers re-territorialize forest spaces to their advantage. These mechanisms change and adapt over time, notably in response to a closing of the forest frontier, illustrating the challenges facing locals seeking livelihoods and state officials managing forests. The paper challenges dominant assumptions about local villagers’ positionality in the global land rush and calls for rethinking the nature of contemporary peasant politics worldwide.
Mots-clé
Land access and control, enclosure, encroachment, forest transition, agrarian transformation, smallholder plantations, acacia, Vietnam
Financement(s)
Fonds national suisse / Programmes / 400440-169430
Création de la notice
17/03/2022 11:29
Dernière modification de la notice
11/08/2023 5:58
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