By Shapan Adnan

Harvey [2003] has argued that, in the long term historical geography of capitalism, accumulation by dispossession (ongoing primitive accumulation) is organically linked to the accumulation of capital proper i.e. that based on expanded reproduction. Furthermore, accumulation by dispossession has become the principal form of accumulation characterizing neoliberal capitalism in the context of contemporary globalization. Among the numerous dimensions of such dispossession, this paper focuses on the mechanisms of the seizure of the lands of the poor peasantry, termed ‘displacement by dispossession’ by Arighi [2009], as well as the modes of resistance deployed by the latter against such processes.