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Land Appropriation

Land Appropriation is a foundational mechanism within settler colonial systems by which Indigenous territories are systematically seized, reclassified, and transferred to settler control through legal, economic, or coercive means, distinguishing it from mere territorial expansion by its inherent disruption of Indigenous ontologies and relationships to land.

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The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals

Ben White, Saturnino M. Borras, Ruth Hall et al. · The Journal of Peasant Studies · 2012 · 893 citations · Full text

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How Did Colonialism Dispossess? Comments from an Edge of Empire

Cole Harris · Annals of the Association of American Geographers · 2004 · 450 citations

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Owners and Satellites: The Economics of Territory Defence in the Pied Wagtail, Motacilla alba

N. B. Davies, Alasdair I. Houston · Journal of Animal Ecology · 1981 · 381 citations

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The benefits of land registration and titling: Economic and social perspectives

Gershon Feder, Akihiko Nishio · Land Use Policy · 1998 · 351 citations

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Over the heads of local people: consultation, consent, and recompense in large-scale land deals for biofuels projects in Africa

Sonja Vermeulen, Lorenzo Cotula · The Journal of Peasant Studies · 2010 · 341 citations · Full text

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    Paul W. Gates

    Cornell University, United States

    5 publications · 97 citations

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    Klaus Deininger

    World Bank, United States

    5 publications · 225 citations

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    Robert M. Owens

    National Museum Wales, United Kingdom

    4 publications · 126 citations

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    Elias Danyi Kuusaana

    University for Development Studies, Ghana

    4 publications · 301 citations

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  5. SC
    Satish Chand

    UNSW Sydney, Australia

    4 publications · 74 citations

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Institutions

534

  1. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    10 h-index

    13 publications

    797 citations

  2. London School of Economics and Political Science

    London, United Kingdom

    9 h-index

    9 publications

    326 citations

  3. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    9 h-index

    9 publications

    387 citations

  4. Lund University

    Lund, Sweden

    8 h-index

    13 publications

    584 citations

  5. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    7 h-index

    10 publications

    309 citations

  6. Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University

    Balashikha, Russia

    7 h-index

    7 publications

    653 citations

  7. University of Arizona

    Tucson, United States

    7 h-index

    10 publications

    372 citations

  8. University of the Witwatersrand

    Johannesburg, South Africa

    6 h-index

    7 publications

    218 citations

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  1. Land Use Policy

    68 publications · 3.8K citations

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  2. Hispanic American Historical Review

    HAHR · 26 publications · 1.2K citations

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  3. World Development

    23 publications · 1.9K citations

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  4. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 22 publications · 965 citations

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  5. The Journal of Peasant Studies

    18 publications · 2.5K citations

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