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- Title
State, war, and land dispossession: The multiple paths to land concentration.
- Authors
Vargas, Jenniffer; Uribe, Sonia
- Abstract
We focus on the role of the state in land dispossession during war. State agencies promote land accumulation not only through coercive paths, but also by combining political and market mechanisms. Each mechanism may link the state with different actors and coalitions. We illustrate how this worked in Tibú, a Colombian municipality in which violence against civilians and land accumulation took place in more or less distinct phases. The case highlights the fact that land accumulation during war is not only achieved through coercion. At the same time, it shows the importance of identifying the specific coalitions through which states establish their presence in contested territories during war. We explain such variation as resulting from the types of alliances and coalitions that the state establishes with different sets of stakeholders, and the aims pursued by coalition actors.
- Subjects
COLOMBIA; EVICTION; WAR; VIOLENCE; LAND use; COLOMBIAN politics &; government; COALITIONS
- Publication
Journal of Agrarian Change, 2017, Vol 17, Issue 4, p749
- ISSN
1471-0358
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/joac.12237