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An "eco-city", a mining complex, and a massive project to grow food and fuel are all part of an Indonesian growth drive that activists allege is causing deforestation and dispossession.

From Barron's • Oct. 17, 2025

The rebels say they fight for the rights of indigenous tribes and the rural poor, citing decades of state neglect and land dispossession.

From BBC • May 27, 2025

One in which a sense of displacement and dispossession is driven by a lost cultural advantage.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 21, 2024

Directed by Raoul Peck, “Silver Dollar Road” adapts a 2019 ProPublica feature by Lizzie Presser into an intimate portrait of the family’s forbearance in the face of dispossession.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2023

And this view of things was connected to the fear that passed through the generations, to the sense of dispossession.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates