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oapen-20.500.12657-621912024-03-27T14:14:47Z Fields of Gold Fairbairn, Madeleine Brazil, financializaion, political ecology, agricultural geography, rural sociology, land policy thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPQ Central / national / federal government::JPQB Central / national / federal government policies thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KF Finance and accounting::KFF Finance and the finance industry Fields of Gold critically examines the history, ideas, and political struggles surrounding the financialization of farmland. In particular, Madeleine Fairbairn focuses on developments in two of the most popular investment locations, the US and Brazil, looking at the implications of financiers' acquisition of land and control over resources for rural livelihoods and economic justice. At the heart of Fields of Gold is a tension between efforts to transform farmland into a new financial asset class, and land's physical and social properties, which frequently obstruct that transformation. But what makes the book unique among the growing body of work on the global land grab is Fairbairn's interest in those acquiring land, rather than those affected by land acquisitions. Fairbairn's work sheds ethnographic light on the actors and relationships—from Iowa to Manhattan to São Paulo—that have helped to turn land into an attractive financial asset class. Thanks to generous funding from UC Santa Cruz, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories. 2023-03-29T15:52:03Z 2023-03-29T15:52:03Z 2021 book ONIX_20230329_9781501750106_170 9781501750106 9781501750090 9781501750083 9781501750076 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62191 eng Cornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Development, and Environment application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781501750106.pdf 9781501750090.epub http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501750076/fields-of-gold Cornell University Press Cornell University Press 10.7298/0rpz-ah59 10.7298/0rpz-ah59 06a447d4-1d09-460f-8b1d-3b4b09d64407 ad7a7698-b722-4f6e-9ab9-e9dcadcb3780 9781501750106 9781501750090 9781501750083 9781501750076 Cornell University Press 234 Ithaca [...] open access
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Fields of Gold critically examines the history, ideas, and political struggles surrounding the financialization of farmland. In particular, Madeleine Fairbairn focuses on developments in two of the most popular investment locations, the US and Brazil, looking at the implications of financiers' acquisition of land and control over resources for rural livelihoods and economic justice. At the heart of Fields of Gold is a tension between efforts to transform farmland into a new financial asset class, and land's physical and social properties, which frequently obstruct that transformation. But what makes the book unique among the growing body of work on the global land grab is Fairbairn's interest in those acquiring land, rather than those affected by land acquisitions. Fairbairn's work sheds ethnographic light on the actors and relationships—from Iowa to Manhattan to São Paulo—that have helped to turn land into an attractive financial asset class. Thanks to generous funding from UC Santa Cruz, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
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