The Global Land Grab, Primitive Accumulation and Accumulation by Dispossession Revisited: from conceptual tensions and debates to contradictions and crisis tendencies
In an attempt to understand and explain the global land grab in terms of the dynamics and contemporary transformations of capitalism, critical scholars have made extensive use of the concepts of primitive accumulation and accumulation by dispossession. Although they provide powerful insights into the phenomenon, their use is also fraught with challenges. In the absence of conceptual clarity, tensi