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Land fictions : the commodification of land in city and country / edited by D. Asher Ghertner and Robert W. Lake.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cornell series on land. New perspectives on territory, development, and environment.
- Cornell scholarship online.
- Cornell series on land. New perspectives on territory, development, and environment
- Cornell scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Land use--Economic aspects.
- Land use.
- Land use, Urban--Economic aspects.
- Land use, Urban.
- Land use, Rural--Economic aspects.
- Land use, Rural.
- Urbanization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 333 pages) : illustrations ;
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- 'Land Fictions' explores the common storylines, narratives, and tales of social betterment that justify and enact land as commodity. It 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. This collection brings 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. Through a variety of perspectives, the book finds resonances between local stories of land's fictional powers and global visions of landed property's imagined power to automatically create value and advance national development.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781501753961
- 1501753967
- 9781501753749
- 1501753746
- OCLC:
- 1154920407
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