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SUMMARY:Plantations\, Violence\, and the Monopoly Form - Professor Tania M
 urray Li\, Professor of Anthropology\, University of Toronto
DTSTART:20160224T170000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Plantations are back.  Colonial-style large scale corporate m
 onoculture of industrial crops on concession land is again expanding in th
 e global south.  The land dimensions of this renewed expansion were thrus
 t into public debate in 2008-9\, when there was a spike in transnational l
 and-acquisitions dubbed a global "land-grab." Legitimating narratives for 
 corporate grabs hinge on the need for efficient production to supply food 
 and fuel for expanding populations\, and the promise that plantations brin
 g development to remote regions\, reduce poverty and create jobs.  These 
 narratives are powerful: time and again opposition to "land grabs" is dism
 issed on these grounds.  Present losses and harms are discounted in view 
 of the brighter future that is to come.  To move the debate forward\, muc
 h more attention needs to be paid to what happens after the grab: what for
 m of "development" is actually produced?  What are the economic\, social\
 , political and ecological relations that form on and around agricultural 
 land concessions not just in the short term\, but as they evolve over time
 ?  What is a plantation? 
LOCATION:Small Lecture Theatre\, Department of Geography\, Downing Site
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