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This chapter contains three mainstay concepts in the study of the politics of land (forestland, formalization, and frontier), two concepts that are relatively recent and closely associated with the contemporary global land rush (financialization and foreignization of land) and three relatively new and propositional ideas (five Rs, flex crops and commodities, and [land dimension of] food sovereignty). Individually, the entries are brought to a broader platform of conversation about land politics (this book). Collectively, these demonstrate how the broader political economy shapes the meanings of concepts and keywords over time. Specifically, the chapter shows how land politics are politically contested in dynamically altered global contexts, and in the process, the way land control is reshaped and shifted by and across key actors and sectors of the economy and polity across societies.