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This book fills the gap admirably. Think of it as a mix-tape, in which you ’re led from rural, urban, indigenous, Earth First!, Global North, Global South, policy wonk, insurgent, high theory, and high praxis. Listen for the new voices and the new ideas—you ’ll be humming them for years to come, and you ’ll have heard them here first.” —Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System  \n“Grab back this sparkling mosaic of essays as a treasure of our new-old knowledge commons. Together these pieces replace dichotomies with dialectics, making explicit the inseparability of land and collective life.” —Maia Ramnath, author of Decolonizing Anarchism  \n“As the forces of thanatos leave no stone unturned in their quest to dominate the entire planet, this anthology provides a much-needed antidote. Weaving together accounts from around the world, the authors advocate building grassroots movements aimed at subverting capital’s incessant assault on our lives and land.” —George Katsiaficas, author of Asia’s Unknown Uprisings“Never perhaps has the land question been so crucial for anti-capitalist movements, as we are witnessing a global process of enclosure that privatizes lands, waters, forests, displacing millions from their homes, and placing monetary gates to what we rightly considered our commonwealth. It is essential then that we understand what motivates this drive and its effects in all their social and spatial dimensions. Grabbing Back takes us through this process , identifying the ‘reasons’ and actors behind this global land grab and, most important, introducing us to the struggles that people are making across the world to resist being evicted from their lands and to reclaim the earth.  \nBringing together an impressive group of authors, active in different social movements, it narrates a powerful story that, wherever we are, we will recognize as our own.” —George Caffentzis, Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa  \n“The acquisition, control, and exploitation of land, as well as the simultaneous dispossession of land-based and peasant communities, is central to the processes of both colonialism and capitalism. As Fanon reminds us, egalitarian governance and stewardship of land is fundamental to the struggle for liberation and self-determination for all oppressed peoples. This makes Grabbing Back a necessary study for anticapitalist and anticolonial movements.” —Harsha Walia, author of Undoing Border Imperialism  \n“Land grabs are a global phenomenon of our times, driven by the everincreasing demands of both global corporations and the governments with which they are allied. But as this powerful and timely book demonstrates, small farmers and ordinary citizens around the world are standing up to defend their own with passion and ingenuity, and they are recording successes that are both extraordinary and inspiring.” —Oliver Tickell, editor of The Ecologist.  \nGrabbing Back Essays against the Global Land Grab  \nEdited by Alexander Reid Ross  \nGrabbing Back: Essays against the Global Land Grab © 2014 Alexander Reid Ross.  \nIndividual chapters are copyrighted to their authors.  \nThis edition © 2014 AK Press (Oakland, Edinburgh, Baltimore) . 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