(PDF) Power / Knowledge / Land: Contested Ontologies of Land and Its Governance in Africa - Laura A. German

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The 2008 outcry over the ?global land grab? made headlines around the world, leading to a sustained interest in the dynamics and fate of customary land among both academics and development practitioners. In?Power/Knowledge/Land, author Laura German profiles the consolidation of a global knowledge regime surrounding land and its governance within international development circles in the decade following this outcry, and the growing enrollment of previously antagonistic actors within it. Drawing theoretical insights on the inseparability of power and knowledge, German reveals the dynamics of knowledge practices that have enabled the longstanding project of commodifying customary land ? and the more contemporary interests in acquiring and financializing it ? to be advanced and legitimated by capturing the energies of socially progressive forces. By bringing theories of change from the emergent land governance orthodoxy into dialogue with the ethnographic evidence from across the African

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