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‘Land grabbing’ in Russia: Large-scale investors and post-Soviet rural communities (LANDGRABRU)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

"The mid-2000s saw the emergence of large-scale land acquisitions. While processes of agricultural ‘land grabbing’ have received considerable global attention, particularly in Africa, the land grabbing issue in the countries of the post-Soviet region has gone largely unnoticedThis research proposal aims to explore this omission in the ‘land grab’ debate by studying the case of Russia. The main res ...
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Images of Organized Sex: The Pornography Industry in India and Sweden (POST)

Start date: Aug 10, 2011, End date: Nov 6, 2016,

The aim of the project is to inquire into the gendered commercial-industrial bases of pornography within the dynamics of transnationalisation and to critically examine the regulatory policies that pertain to it. Despite the size and influence of the industry, there is little research and information available on its commercial-industrial aspects. Research will be carried out in India and Sweden, b ...
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Alternative Regionalisms in an Age of Globalization. The Role of Civil Society (Alternative Regions)

Start date: Sep 1, 2007, End date: Aug 31, 2009,

Recently, economic liberalization emphasis on regionalism has been a prime concern for wider sectors of civil society around the world. Over and over, these groups are presented in the mass media as opponents to this policy option. Less has been said about the alternatives they have put forward. This research focuses on this task and in so doing; it develops a systematic and comparative South-Sout ...
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