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Thinking Allowed: Land and territory

Land and territory

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Land struggles: Laurie Taylor explores the way that land is controlled and owned, from Bolivia to Britain.

Land Struggles: From Bolivia to Britain, the way that land is owned and controlled is central to many contemporary inequalities and political battles. Laurie Taylor talks to Brett Christophers, Professor in the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University, Sweden, about ‘the new enclosure’, a UK study into the appropriation of public land by the private sector –  an astonishing two million hectares worth £400 billion – in recent decades. This ownership now forms the largest component of wealth in Britain and is the largest privatisation of a  public resource in European history. Also, Penelope Anthias, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at University of Durham, describes  the lives  of indigenous people in Bolivia as they struggle to regain ancestral territory after a century of colonialism and state backed dispossession.  

Producer: Jayne Egerton

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