Grabbing Back: Essays Against the Global Land Grab

by Alexander Reid Ross (Editor), Vandana Shiva (Contributor), Noam Chomsky (Contributor)

Resisting the commodification and consumption of land from foreclosed homes to annihilated rainforests.

Genres: Nonfiction

451 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 19, 2014

Reviews

[Tom · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent collection of essays from around the world concerning a wide range of efforts to re-claim land in the face of land appropriations (often extra-judicial) by governments for industrial purposes, disuse, and ill-use--acts committed in the name of subsistence agriculture, non-commercial recreational use, and for use as public commons. We live in times of prostitution political ethos, the salient feature of which everything and everybody is--or ought to be--for sale. These essays describe the multifarious ways in which various groups of people are struggling to claim land for the public good.

[Aco · Rating 5 out of 5]

面對全球盲搶地趨勢，無權無勢者可以如何搶返轉頭?


Grabbing Back provides an insightful response to the phenomenon of global land grab. It is particularly relevant to Hong Kong with the North-East New Territories Development coming forth.