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Land Grabbing and Home Country Development: Chinese and British Land Acquisitions in Comparative Perspective
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Abstract Since 2008, foreign land acquisitions have attracted international attention under the term »land grabbing.« Illustrated by rich and nuanced empirical accounts of forty Chinese and British investment projects in Sub-Saharan Africa, Ariane Goetz explains the phenomenon of »land grabbing« from the per... view more
Since 2008, foreign land acquisitions have attracted international attention under the term »land grabbing.« Illustrated by rich and nuanced empirical accounts of forty Chinese and British investment projects in Sub-Saharan Africa, Ariane Goetz explains the phenomenon of »land grabbing« from the perspective of two investor countries. She reflects on Chinese and British public policy, state-society relations, national developmental contexts, ideologies, and international relations and thereby gives insights into the political economies that enable these investments as well as the development ambitions and institutionalized paradigms of which they form a part.... view less
Keywords
China; Great Britain; developmental sociology; development aid policy; Africa South of the Sahara; globalization; political economy; foreign investment
Classification
International Relations, International Politics, Foreign Affairs, Development Policy
Free Keywords
China; Foreign Direct Investment (FDI); Globalization; Home-Country Context; International Political Economy; International Relations; Investor; Land Grabbing; Neoliberalism; Political Science; Politics; Public Policy; Sociology of Development; Sub-Saharan Africa; UK
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
368 p.
Series
Edition Politik, 61
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839442678
ISBN
978-3-8394-4267-8
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0