ABSTRACT
This chapter sets out the basic contours of land grabbing, and it shows how the phenomenon has been challenged both as a concept and through scholarly and activist challenges to changes in control over land. It then outlines a framework that seeks to nuance and explain processes of dispossession and accumulation associated with land grabbing, employing the related concepts of access and exclusion. The chapter concludes with a suggested pedagogy of land debates relevant to contemporary circumstances that employs the lens of exclusion, suggesting that such an approach links land-specific issues to many other concepts, themes, and debates in global development.
