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Micro Land Grabbing and Local Communities
This thesis argues, that the dominant focus on large-scale appropriations obscures slower processes of Land Grabbing that might take place gradually on a smaller scale. Members of local communities come into particular focus as their land, which serves as a basis for self-sufficiency and collective identity, is highly affected by land acquisitions. To make such a process visible, we collected and analysed qualitative data from twenty local communities around the world. Our results show a characterization of, what we call, ‘Micro Land Grabbing’ by analysing the actors involved, conflicts and effects as well as possible reactions to such land appropriations. This thesis identifies dynamics that intend to facilitate working with a less regarded, but equally important form of Land Grabbing and shows how the concept sheds new light on a hidden process. Therefore, it contributes to the alternative debate on Land Grabbing.
Sustainable Metals Management
Metals have been vital to human civilization for many thousands of years. Their durability and recyclability should make them ideal materials for a sustainable economy. This book assembles experts from many fields to discuss the conditions and limits of sustainable metals management. The contributors examine the theoretical ideas and goals of sustainability, and apply them across the metal making and trading process.
Alternative Globalizations
Globalization has become synonymous with the seemingly unfettered spread of capitalist multinationals, but this focus on the West and western economies ignores the wide variety of globalizing projects that sprang up in the socialist world as a consequence of the end of the European empires. This collection is the first to explore alternative forms of globalization across the socialist world during the Cold War. Gathering the work of established and upcoming scholars of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China, Alternative Globalizations addresses the new relationships and interconnections which emerged between a decolonizing world in the postwar period and an increasingly internationalist eastern bloc after the death of Stalin. In many cases, the legacies of these former globalizing impulses from the socialist world still exist today. Divided into four sections, the works gathered examine the economic, political, developmental, and cultural aspects of this exchange. In doing so, the authors break new ground in exploring this understudied history of globalization and provide a multifaceted study of an increasing postwar interconnectedness across a socialist world.
Living in territorial Solidarity
We look for vaccination and do not perceive the long-term solution against pandemics that threaten to come up more frequently. Looking at this phenomenon in a comprehensive in-depth way would teach us to maintain equilibrium in our relation to nature. However as long as destruction of natural ecosystems is promoted by interests to maximize profits in the mining sector, by planting monocultures, or by the construction of large hydroelectric dams to process bauxite, iron ore, etc. pandemics will continue to pop up, draughts, floods and global warming will endanger lives. Uprooting cultures will provoke conflicts and a loss of relations to nature. Lessening biodiversity will reduce resilience. ...
Cerrado
Der Cerrado ist die artenreichste Savanne der Erde und Lebens- und Wirtschaftsraum für viele traditionelle Völker und Gemeinschaften. Sowohl die Biodiversität als auch die soziale Vielfalt sind durch nationale und internationale ökonomische Interessen bedroht, die den Cerrado zur monokulturellen Ausbeutung degradiert haben. International findet der Cerrado bisher kaum Beachtung. Dieses Buch möchte eine breite wissenschaftliche, politische und gesellschaftliche Debatte im deutschsprachigen Raum über den brasilianischen Cerrado in Gang setzen.
Traditionell zukunftsfähig
Traditionelle Völker und Gemeinschaften sind das wichtigste Erbe der Menschheit. Weltweit können etwa eine Milliarde Menschen traditionellen Völkern und Gemeinschaften zugerechnet werden, etwa ein Drittel davon gehört indigenen Völkern an. Eine wichtige Erkenntnis aller Kolloquien seit 2009 ist, dass für ihre Zukunftssicherung die Kontrolle über die Territorien eine zentrale Bededeutung hat. Im V. Internationalen Kolloqium Traditionelle Völker und Gemeinschaften setzten sich Referierende und Teilnehmende mit übergreifenden Aufgabenstellungen sowie dazugehörenden spezifischeren Fragen auseinander. Die Weltregionen Brasilien, Indien, Westafrika und die Alpen sowie die Region Nordhessen standen im Zentrum der Debatte. Die Themenblöcke „Identität und Tradition“, „Territorien, Rechte und Bedrohung“, „Territorium, Rechte und Nachhaltigkeit“ sowie „Migration und Ökonomie“ wurden stets für zwei Regionen diskutiert; dies ermöglichte Vergleichbarkeiten machte aber auch Unterschiede in den Ländern deutlich.
