Asian Land Acquisitions in Africa: Beyond the ‘New Bandung’ or a ‘New Colonialism’?

William G. Martin and Ravi Arvind Palat
Additional contact information
William G. Martin: William G. Martin is Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University, State University of New York. Email: wgmartin1@gmail.com
Ravi Arvind Palat: Ravi Arvind Palat is Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University, State University of New York. Email: palat@binghamton.edu

Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, 2014, vol. 3, issue 1, 125-150

Abstract: The ‘New Bandung’ framework presumes a stable North/South order and opposition to it. This article examines how reigning orthodoxies on the acquisition of land and agricultural investments in Africa by Asian states and corporations do not fit this model. This holds even for core-centric models such as ‘accumulation by dispossession’, which fail to capture the collapse of accumulation strategies in the global North as they relate to new powers, policies and movements in the South. Rather than a crisis of accumulation, Asian investment represents an attempt to cater to higher food demands of rising elites in the ‘emerging economies’ and a class collaboration between them and African elites. This represents the end of a process of expansion of the global North that had begun circa 1750. It follows that the future can no longer rely upon North/South polar models and theories.

Keywords: Africa; Asia; land grabs; imperialism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2277976014530221 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:agspub:v:3:y:2014:i:1:p:125-150

DOI: 10.1177/2277976014530221

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy from Centre for Agrarian Research and Education for South
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().