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Land Fictions : The Commodification of Land in City and Country
Title
Land Fictions : The Commodification of Land in City and Country / edited by D. Asher Ghertner, Robert W. Lake.
ISBN
9781501753749
9781501753732
9781501753961
9781501753756
Publication
Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©2021.
Physical Description
1 online resource (342 pages): illustrations
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Summary
"Bringing together original research on urban, rural and peri-urban India, rapidly urbanizing China and Southeast Asia, resource expropriation in Africa and Latin America, and the neoliberal urban landscapes of North America and Europe, this book interrogates global patterns of property formation, the dispossessions property markets enact, and the popular movements to halt the growing waves of evictions and land grabs they face" Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Series
Cornell series on land : new perspectives on territory, development, and environment
Contents
Introduction : Land Fictions and the Politics of Commodification in City and Country / D. Asher Ghertner and Robert W. Lake
Fictitious but not Utopian : Land Commodification and Dispossession in Rural India / Michael Levien
Fictions of Surplus : Commodifying Public Land in Canada and the United Kingdom / Brett Christophers and Heather Whiteside
Fictions of Safety : Defensive Storylines in Global Property Investment / Sarah Knuth
Ground Fictions : Soil, Property, and Markets in the Colombian Conflict / Meghan L. Morris
Narratives of Waste : The Fictions and Frictions of Land Commodification in Liberalizing India / Sai Balakrishnan
Rental Fictions : Speculating in Rent-Regulated Housing in New York City / Benjamin F. Teresa
The Fiction of Formalization : Titles, Concessions, and the Politics of Landownership in Cambodia Michael L. Dwyer
Regularization and the Fictions of Planning "Unauthorized Delhi" / D. Asher Ghertner
The Sanctuary of the Collective : Contesting the Fictions of State-Led Land Commodification in Peri-Urban Guangzhou / Mi Shih
Rights Gone Wrong on the City's Edge : The Fictions and Fetishes of Land Documents in Ho Chi Minh City / Erik Harms
Where Materiality Meets Subjectivity : Locating the Political in the Contested Fiction of Urban Land in Camden, New Jersey / Robert W. Lake
The State of Land Grabs : Regulatory Fictions in Ghana's "Small-Scale" Gold Mining Sector / Heidi Hausermann and David Ferring
Afterword : Land Fictions in the Longue Duree / Michael J. Watts.
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