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Recent Posts
- Vote For Me: democratic scholarship
- New York and London
- Foreign Farmland Acquisition – Controlling ‘Land Grabs’
- Land Grabs aren’t all that bad?
- Summer 2010
- Losing Land and Livelihoods
- Sardinia
- Elite Education
- Social Movements, Land Tenure, and Power-to-Rights-Approach
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Studies Archive
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Vote For Me: democratic scholarship
Dear visitors, I will be starting an MPA degree at the London School of Economics this fall (in about a month)… Unfortunately, the tuition fees are quite high (and about 20,000 Euros a year) and I need every support I can get! That’s why I’ve applied to the democratic scholarship. As part of the notion of ‘democracy’ [...] -
Foreign Farmland Acquisition – Controlling ‘Land Grabs’
I finished my thesis more than a month ago already but time has not allowed me yet to update my blog for quite a while. It has been an interesting undertaking with some surprising and other not-so-surprising conclusions. Below the abstract of the thesis, titled foreign farmland acquisition – controlling ‘land grabs’. If you are interested in [...] -
Land Grabs aren’t all that bad?
I’ve introduced the threats large long-term agricultural investments can cause in least developed countries here. The question that I then tried to answer was: while the media terms these deals ‘land grabs’ (with a negative connotation implying there is only negative impact), what are the actual opportunities, especially for the local level? Before sharing with [...] -
Losing Land and Livelihoods
As you might be aware of, I am currently busy writing my thesis about ‘land grabbing’ in the least developed countries (see here and here). The thesis is separated into three parts: general descriptions and processes, threats and opportunities, analysis of current strategies and policies to tackle the problem. I’m in the middle of finishing [...] -
Elite Education
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the different kinds of university education out there. I could write about a lot of things now related to my choices – why and how -, but it’s late, and I’d really just like to recommend an article I have read that I found extremely interesting. There are all [...] -
Social Movements, Land Tenure, and Power-to-Rights-Approach
I’m making quite decent progress with my Honour’s Thesis… I’m done with my first chapter, which is now under review by my supervisor. I’m surprised though by the quantity of the chapter. I shouldn’t be, really, it’s about 15 pages and covers the general description of ‘land grabs’ (ie., large-scale long-term foreign agricultural investment), why [...] -
What Comes Next
It has been almost five months again since I updated my blog. Time simply flies, or in other words I don’t really put so much effort into maintaining this site. Not really sure who still reads this, what kind of information any of my visitors is looking for, well, and more importantly, what kind of [...] -
Land Grabbing
I’m about to start with my Honour’s research thesis to complete my studies in Utrecht. I chose the topic ‘land grabbing – opportunities and threats to less economically developed countries and regulatory measures and policies for effective control’. One of the lingering effects of the food price crisis of 2007–08 on the world food system is the [...] -
Public Toilets… once again
Once again I’d like to refer you to the World of Toilets blog.. This blog is part of one of my classes at the Science University of Malaysia (USM, Penang) (Dr. Bustami’s class ‘Globalisation, CyberCulture & Future Studies’ in the department of Anthropology and Sociology). The overall goal is to start a movement on a CSR [...] -
A USM Project: Public Toilets / CSR
Perhaps a somewhat unusual post and yet interesting as always ;) As part of my class ‘Globalisation, Cyberculture and Future Studies’ here at University of Science, Malaysia (USM) we are supposed to create a blog (just like this one), with a theme connected to CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) to eventually trigger a movement that ought to [...]