In Critical Development Studies, expropriation is most succinctly understood as the process of separating the class of peasants or commoners from the land. Expropriation exists as a central mechanism for the expansion of capitalism, particularly in the Global South, where primitive accumulation, dispossession, and land seizures take up primary positions in the enforcement of economic structure¹. This dispossession occurs through both legal means and violent evictions². Exprop
