Journal article
The men in the middle: a missing dimension in global land deals
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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.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1080/03066150.2014.920329
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- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Journal:
- Journal of Peasant Studies More from this journal
- Volume:
- 41
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 593-612
- Publication date:
- 2014-01-01
- Edition:
- Proof
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1743-9361
- ISSN:
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0306-6150
- Language:
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English
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2014-10-06
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- Copyright holder:
- Taylor & Francis
- Copyright date:
- 2014
- Notes:
- This is the author accepted manuscript following peer review version of the article. The final version is available online from Taylor & Francis at: 10.1080/03066150.2014.920329
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