Nodes of resistance to green grabbing: a political ecology

Stan Weeber
2016 Environment and Social Psychology  
Green grabbing is the privatization or appropriation of land for purposes of advancing a "green" economy while excluding local, indigenous people from natural resources. This is a problem of global scale that has arisen mainly during a historical period when free market, neo-liberal policies have dominated the world economy. The academic li-terature on the subject rarely mentions resistance to green grabbing, nor are there many efforts to critically and syste-matically examine the social
more » ... s of this process. We consider both what works and what fails during the process of opposition, as well as the social psychology of risk taking among both green grabbers and opponents. The paper con-cludes with a way forward proffering the resistance.
doi:10.18063/esp.v1i2.49 fatcat:mbirpcoqqzcv3hazdvhlpk2rzm