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Global Finance and the Land Grab: Mapping Twenty-First Century Strategies

Knuth, Sarah Elisabeth

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Abstract

Understanding global land transformations today requires greater attention to finance, and how financial institutions are making land and property into financial assets. Drawing on geographical political economy and scholarship on financialisation, I question the nature and temporality of finance's new interest in land – notably, whether it is speculative and short term or an emerging longer-term strategy. I consider how different kinds of financial institutions invest in land differently, how they are mobilising value arguments and tools and how a growing scarcity of “safe“ assets may push even conservative financial players into new experiments with land and other accumulation frontiers.

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Knuth, S. E. (2015). Global Finance and the Land Grab: Mapping Twenty-First Century Strategies. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 36(2), 163-178. https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2015.1046373

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Apr 2, 2015
Online Publication Date Jul 24, 2015
Publication Date Jul 24, 2015
Deposit Date May 23, 2018
Journal Canadian Journal of Development Studies
Print ISSN 0225-5189
Electronic ISSN 2158-9100
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 36
Issue 2
Pages 163-178
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2015.1046373


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