Predatory peace. Dispossession at Aceh’s oil palm frontier

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Predatory peace. Dispossession at Aceh’s oil palm frontier. / Lund, Christian.

In: Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 45, No. 2, 2018, p. 431-452.

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Lund, C 2018, 'Predatory peace. Dispossession at Aceh’s oil palm frontier', Journal of Peasant Studies, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 431-452. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2017.1351434

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Lund, C. (2018). Predatory peace. Dispossession at Aceh’s oil palm frontier. Journal of Peasant Studies, 45(2), 431-452. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2017.1351434

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Lund C. Predatory peace. Dispossession at Aceh’s oil palm frontier. Journal of Peasant Studies. 2018;45(2):431-452. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2017.1351434

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Lund, Christian. / Predatory peace. Dispossession at Aceh’s oil palm frontier. In: Journal of Peasant Studies. 2018 ; Vol. 45, No. 2. pp. 431-452.

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