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Library men in the middle: a missing dimension in global land deals

men in the middle: a missing dimension in global land deals

men in the middle: a missing dimension in global land deals

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Date of publication
december 2014
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AGRIS:US201600014098
Pages
593-612

Middlemen are largely absent from the literature and policymaking on land deals. Based on qualitative evidence from India, this paper shows a highly organised field of aggregators, brokers, touts, musclemen and others permeating the land economy. Biographical accounts provide glimpses of everyday work, career and aspirations. A high-definition narrative of middlemen as middlemen allows a shift away from instrumental analyses of bridges in global capitalist accumulation. Even as they reproduce larger structures, middlemen can be rule-makers who personalise, localise and actively shape the land economy. Global debates cannot afford to ignore these hitherto missing dimensions in land deals.

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Sud, Nikita

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