TY - BOOK ID - 85498129 TI - Concessionaires, financiers and communities : implementing indigenous peoples' rights to land in transnational development projects PY - 2020 SN - 1108586570 1108689108 1108659683 1108484654 1108723454 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Indigenous peoples KW - Aboriginal peoples KW - Aborigines KW - Adivasis KW - Indigenous populations KW - Native peoples KW - Native races KW - Ethnology KW - Land tenure KW - Economic development projects KW - Law and legislation KW - Agrarian tenure KW - Feudal tenure KW - Freehold KW - Land ownership KW - Land question KW - Landownership KW - Tenure of land KW - Land use, Rural KW - Real property KW - Land, Nationalization of KW - Landowners KW - Serfdom KW - Development projects, Economic KW - Projects, Economic development KW - Economic assistance KW - Technical assistance UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85498129 AB - Unrelenting demands for energy, infrastructure and natural resources, and the need for developing states to augment income and signal an 'enterprise-ready' attitude mean that transnational development projects remain a common tool for economic development. Yet little is known about the fragmented legal framework of private financial mechanisms, contractual clauses and discretionary behaviours that shape modern development projects. How do gaps and biases in formal laws cope with the might of concessionaires and financiers and their algorithmic contractual and policy technicalities negotiated in private offices? What impacts do private legal devices have for the visibility and implementation of Indigenous peoples' rights to land? This original perspective on transnational development projects explains how the patterns of poor rights recognition and implementation, power(lessness), vulnerability and, ultimately, conflict routinely seen in development projects will only be fully appreciated by acknowledging and remedying the pivotal role and priority enjoyed by private mechanisms, documentation and expertise. ER -