Of course, because such far-reaching changes in rural space are always contested, there are vigorous debates about the role of neoliberal capitalism in the making of rurality. Phillips, 1993, Phillips, 2004, Darling, 2005) to the so-called 'land grabs' taking place in Sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere, which is increasingly emphasized in the area of agrarian political economy (e.g. Evidence of such outcomes can be found across the social sciences, ranging from processes of rural gentrification in the ‘global north’, as documented by scholars of rural studies, for example (e.g. This is a politics defined by the current global strength of neoliberal capitalism, which produces unprecedented material inequality and makes it conceivable and feasible for those with significant wealth to move into and seek to control rural space. The backdrop to this paper is what I understand to be the contemporary global politics of the rural.
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