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This essay reviews the strengths of Daniel Bin's (2025) "Capitalist Dispossessions: Redistribution and Capital Expansion in Contemporary Brazil" book, while illustrating its relevance for world-systemic theorizing and analyzing current brutalities taking place around the world. I consider how Bin's refinements to David Harvey's "accumulation by dispossession" thesis might help us make sense of the "Stop Cop City" movement in Atlanta, GA, USA, and the international political mobilization to stop Israel's genocide in Gaza.
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This essay shows how Daniel Bin's refinement of David Harvey's "Accumulation by Dispossession" analytical perspective can be applied to studies of how/why capitalism relates to dispossession and human immiseration. It demonstrates how this can be done with a methodological approach that connects local-to-global, and applies it to contemporary cases of interest, from Atlanta, GA to Palestine.
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This page is a summary of: Dispossession, Accumulation, Anti-Systemic Resistance Capitalist Dispossessions: Redistribution and Capital Expansion in Contemporary Brazil. By BinDaniel. London: Routledge, 2025. 186 pp., $190.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9781032645940., Critical Sociology, May 2025, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/08969205251346420.
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