Governing precarious lives: Land grabs, geopolitics, and 'food security'
| cam.issuedOnline | 2014-01-14 | |
| dc.contributor.author | Nally, D | |
| dc.contributor.orcid | Nally, David [0000-0002-7769-3314] | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-03-16T13:58:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-03-16T13:58:17Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.description.abstract | <jats:p>This paper has a two‐part structure. The first part of the paper explores contemporary land grabs and shows how they both reflect and constitute a new neoliberal governance structure over land and land‐based resources. In this sense, what is noteworthy about land grabs is their world‐making capacity: the deals structure and make possible new relations of power in the global food economy. For this very reason, it is crucial to understand how land grabs affect both the <jats:italic>pace</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>direction</jats:italic> of agrarian change. The second part of the paper examines the discursive strategies that align ‘food security’ concerns with land‐grabbing practices. Here <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">I</jats:styled-content> suggest that ‘food security’ supplies a moral sanction for land grabs. By mustering public empathy around a desire to ‘feed the future’, food security discourse – to borrow an idea from Fassin (2012) – converts a relationship of dominance (the governance of precarious lives) into a relationship of assistance (the provision of a remedy).</jats:p> | |
| dc.description.version | This is the accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Wiley at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12063 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | The Geographical Journal 2015, 181(4): 340–349. doi:10.1111/geoj.12063 | |
| dc.identifier.eissn | 1475-4959 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0016-7398 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/247029 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Wiley | |
| dc.publisher.url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12063 | |
| dc.subject | food security | |
| dc.subject | land grabs | |
| dc.subject | geopolitics | |
| dc.subject | political economy | |
| dc.subject | governmentality | |
| dc.subject | agriculture | |
| dc.title | Governing precarious lives: Land grabs, geopolitics, and 'food security' | |
| dc.type | Article | |
| prism.endingPage | 349 | |
| prism.publicationDate | 2014 | |
| prism.publicationName | Geographical Journal | |
| prism.startingPage | 340 | |
| prism.volume | 181 | |
| pubs.funder-project-id | Leverhulme Trust (unknown) | |
| rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2014-01-14 | |
| rioxxterms.licenseref.uri | http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved | |
| rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | |
| rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.1111/geoj.12063 |
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