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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Accumulation by dispossession"”.
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Beyond Food Access: Accumulation by Dispossession and Dollar General in Central Appalachia
… an analysis of USDA data on food access and by conducting interviews with 11 people living in Central Appalachia, I find that Dollar General stores are most frequently found in low-income and low-food-access counties and that Central Appalachian people perceive the chain as a necessary evil. …
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Hegemonic conflict in the Caspian region: Accumulation by dispossession and the spatial fix
… of these three powers have been guided primarily by resource and strategic needs, and they have had a significant effect on the uneven development of the Caspian states. The interests and actions of the three powers have frequently come into conflict with each other, and the responses of the …
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Fractured communities: Natural gas, resource control, and social response in Bradford County, PA
… the literatures of environmental justice and accumulation by dispossession, this thesis examines the impacts natural gas drilling has on the local community. Themes of economic benefits, leasing procedures, environmental concerns, social fracturing and political power are explored as they …
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Blue economy investments and injustices around marine protected areas: the case of Mtwara coast, Tanzania
… its discussion on Harvey’s theorisation of the accumulation by dispossession (AbD) and on Issa Shivji’s articulations of AbD and displacement. Several conceptual insights including governmentality, displacement, livelihood and vulnerability, local livelihoods (referring to Dorward’ aspirations), …
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Blue economy investments and injustices around marine protected areas: The case of Mtwara Coast, Tanzania
… its discussion on Harvey’s theorisation of the accumulation by dispossession (AbD) and on Issa Shivji’s articulations of AbD and displacement. Several conceptual insights including governmentality, displacement, livelihood and vulnerability, local livelihoods (referring to Dorward’ aspirations), …
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Food Sovereignty: A Critical Case
… science, thus catalyzing a process of accumulation by dispossession. Those who have been dispossessed of their seed, knowledge, food cultures, and social relations of production, however, have not stood idly by. NGO, peasant and human rights organizations have galvanized around food …
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The impacts of large-scale land acquisition for communal landholders: a case study of Atebubu-Amantin municipality, Ghana
… of Ghana. It employs a combination of Accumulation by Dispossession (ABD) and Sustainable Livelihood Framework (SLF) in analysing the impacts. Using these two frameworks makes it possible to link LSLA to the broader history of neoliberal capital accumulation processes, the dispossession …
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Renewal and Disposability: Projects and Narratives of Development and Dispossession in the "New" New Orleans
… of privatization and newness as the trend of "accumulation by dispossession" (Harvey, 2005) blanketed the city. To create this new city, a narrative of an ideal new resident was necessary to embody this change and represent the city's future. I refer to this ideal in this dissertation as the …
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The Role of the State in Urban Development: The Case of Urban Waterscapes in Cairo, Egypt
… remain silent on systemic inequalities cemented by local and transnational capital. My study examines the politics of urban water as a site of negotiation, accumulation by dispossession and of protest, in both elite and unplanned areas in Cairo’s North Eastern districts. Moments of water …
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What the Tides May Bring: Political "Tigueraje" Disposession and Popular Dissent in Samaná, Dominican Republic
… their collective voices against the waves of dispossession crashing on their shores. Using a combination of archival research, participant observation, oral history and ethnography, I document multiple instances of state intervention to understand how the Samaná community has been coerced over …
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From Dispossession to Surplus Production: A Theory of Capitalist Accumulation in Neoliberal Bangladesh
Dispossession has been playing a central role in capitalist accumulation over the last four-hundred-year history of modern capitalism. This dissertation theorizes how dispossession contributes to producing and reproducing the capitalist mode of production in Bangladesh. To do so, the dissertation …
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Rivers of Resistance: Aid, Activism and Energy in Cambodia and Myanmar
… Hun Manet. Similar efforts to cling to power by Myanmar’s military were met with revolution. For both countries, natural resource governance has been a central factor in shaping the contours of contestation. Through a conceptual framing of isolation and post-isolation, the thesis delivers a …