"Land Grabbing: Perspectives from East and Southeast Asia"

Monday, October 20, 2014 Posted by YL

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Academic Conference on

"Land Grabbing:

Perspectives from East and Southeast Asia"

5-6 June 2015
Chiang Mai University, Thailand

The Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI) is collaborating with several initiatives and institutions to hold an international conference on, “Land Grabbing: Perspectives from East and Southeast Asia”, with a regional focus on East and Southeast Asia, with emphasis on land grabbing, responses to climate change consequences and policy responses as well as resource conflict. It will be held on 5-6 June 2015 in Chiang Mai, Thailand and to be hosted by The Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD) of Chiang Mai University.

The purpose of the 2015 Chiang Mai conference is to continue deepening and broadening our understanding of global land deals – but in the specific regional context, with special attention to climate change and the role of China and other middle income countries within the region. As before, we remain open to broader topics around land grab intersections with political economy, political ecology and political sociology, and will convene a series of parallel sessions on a range of themes responding to the issues below (and others):

· Agrarian Change

· Finance

· Green Grabbing

· The role of BRICS/China, other East Asian countries and middle income countries (MICs)

· Resistance and Alternatives

· International Policy ActorsAnd many more…

The organizers invite papers that offer rigorous and innovative analysis of this list of issues. Papers based on recent, original field research are especially welcomed. We also encourage comparative studies. Doctoral students and younger researchers, particularly from within the region, are especially encouraged to participate.

The deadline for Paper Submission: 31 October 2014
More information about the conference, please visit http://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th and www.iss.nl/ldpi.

For further inquiries, please contact landpolitics@gmail.com.