Grabbing back : essays against the global land grab / edited by Alexander Reid Ross.

"Climate change ravages the earth, while wealthy elites try to grab as much of the world's diminishing resources as possible. As Vandana Shiva writes, land is life. But land, and the struggle to possess it, is also power-- colonial and corporate power, to be sure, but also the power of the disposses...

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Other Authors: Ross, Alexander Reid
Shiva, Vandana
Chomsky, Noam
Rameau, Max
Boggs, Grace Lee
Language:English
Published: Oakland, CA : AK Press, 2014.
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Physical Description:358 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book

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