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Volume 2009 (2009): Issue 54 (Jun 2009): Accumulation by dispossession and Asia’s “modernizing” Left. Forum Editor: Luisa Steur

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Articles
- Against ethnicity
  
  Ring composition and conflict resolution
  
  By: Paul Richards
  
  Pages: 3–15
- Beyond the utility of violence
  
  Interpreting five homicides in the South African lowveld
  
  By: Isak Niehaus
  
  Pages: 16–32
- Inventing "women's history"
  
  Female valor, martial queens, and right-wing story-tellers in the Bombay slums
  
  By: Atreyee Sen
  
  Pages: 33–48
- Border tricksters and the predatory state
  
  Contraband at the Romania-Serbia border during the Yugoslavian embargoes
  
  By: Cosmin Radu
  
  Pages: 49–63
Forum
- What's left?
  
  Land expropriation, socialist "modernizers," and peasant resistance in Asia
  
  By: Luisa Steur and Ritanjan Das
  
  Pages: 67–72
- The meaning of Nandigram
  
  Corporate land invasion, people's power, and the Left in India
  
  By: Tanika Sarkar and Sumit Chowdhury
  
  Pages: 73–88
- "Communist" dispossession meets "reactionary" resistance
  
  The ironies of the parliamentary Left in West Bengal
  
  By: Projit Bihari Mukharji
  
  Pages: 89–96
- Land expropriation, protest, and impunity in rural China
  
  By: Bo Zhao
  
  Pages: 97–105
- Agricultural land conversion and its effects on farmers in contemporary Vietnam
  
  By: Nguyen Van Suu
  
  Pages: 106–113
Review Article
- American death
  
  By: Elizabeth F. S. Roberts
  
  Pages: 114–119

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