ABSTRACT
This chapter has 17 key concepts, making it the longest chapter in the book. In this chapter, there are keywords that are mainstay in the classical agrarian studies treatment of land politics, namely, land reform, land rights, landed class, land tenure security, and the generic word used as title of the book, land politics. These standard terms have, over time, acquired multiple and competing meanings. Another cluster of key concepts in this chapter consists of key words closely associated with the contemporary spectacular global land rush. Many words have become popular, but the interpretations of what these means are diverse and competing. These terms include land boom, land broker, land grabbing, land prospecting, land rush, and large-scale land acquisition. Finally, there are keywords that originated from wider conversations and scholarships that are used in this book to deepen understanding of land politics, and these are land in production/social reproduction, land regime, land regime democratization and regeneration, land sovereignty, land struggles and landscape.
