ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests an approach to landgrabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean that brings the sedimented landscapes of dispossession into the analysis. It provides an introduction to contemporary landgrabbing, highlighting the importance of studying sustained, everyday struggles over meaning, use, and control of land and water, among other key elements for life sustenance. The chapter discusses landscapes as disputed and unfinished political projects that materialize in concrete assemblages of nature and society. The sedimented landscapes of dispossession refer to the spatial aggregate of historical process of inequality, exclusion, death, and suffering. The chapter argues that paying attention to these particular histories and materializations in space allows for a better understanding of landgrabbing’s complex, multiscalar, and multidimensional character.
