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DevPol's latest special issue has just been released. Read it online on our website or order your paperback copy from Brill.Large-scale land acquisition, or ‘land grabbing’, has become a key research topic among scholars interested in agrarian change, development, and the environment. The term 'land acquisitions' refers to a highly contested process in terms of governance and impacts on livelihoods and human rights. This special issue focuses on South-East Asia. A series of thematic and in-depth case studies put ‘land grabbing’ into specific historical and institutional contexts. The issue also offers a human rights analysis of the phenomenon, examining the potential and limits of human rights mechanisms aimed at preventing and mitigating land grabs’ negative consequences.ContentsPART 1 — SETTING THE SCENE: HISTORY, STATE AND LAW1 – Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: A Historical PerspectiveLaurence Roudart and Marcel Mazoyer2 – States as Actors in International Agro-InvestmentsMartin Keulertz and Eckart Woertz3 – The Role of Property Rights in the Debate on Large-Scale Land AcquisitionsOlivier De SchutterPART 2 — LAND DYNAMICS AND LIVELIHOODS IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA4 – The Impact of Larger-Scale Agricultural Investments on Communities in South-East Asia: A First AssessmentJames Zhan, Hafiz Mirza, and Willliam Speller5 – Sweet and Bitter: Trajectories of Sugar Cane Investments in Northern Luzon, the Philippines, and Aceh, Indonesia, 2006–13Mohamad Shohibuddin, Maria Lisa Alano, and Gerben Nooteboom6 – Marginal Land or Marginal People? Analysing Patterns and Processes of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in South-East AsiaPeter Messerli, Amaury Peeters, Oliver Schoenweger, Vong Nanhthavong, and Andreas Heinimann7 – From Lagging Behind to Losing Ground: Cambodian and Laotian Household Economy and Large-Scale Land AcquisitionsChristophe Gironde and Gilda Senties Portilla8 – ‘Better-practice’ Concessions? Lessons from Cambodia’s Leopard-Skin LandscapeMichael B. Dwyer, Emily Polack, and Sokbunthoeun SoPART 3 — HUMAN RIGHTS AND LARGE-SCALE LAND ACQUISITIONS9 – Identifying and Monitoring Human Rights Violations Associated with Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: A Focus on United Nations Mechanisms and South-East AsiaChristophe Golay10 – Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Cambodia: Where Do (Human Rights) Law and Practice Meet?Ioana Cismas and Patricia ParamitaCONCLUSION11 – Large-Scale Land Acquisitions, Livelihoods and Human Rights in South-East AsiaChristophe Gironde and Christophe GolayRead it online at http://poldev.revues.org/2015Order your paperback copy on Brill's website