The long land war : the global struggle for occupancy rights / Jo Guldi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guldi, Jo (Joanna), 1978- author.

Series:

Yale agrarian studies

Yale agrarian studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land reform.

Land reform--Political aspects.

Land tenure--Law and legislation.

Land tenure.

land reform.

Physical Description:

xx, 577 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]

Summary:

The Long Land War tells the story of a global struggle to bring food, water, and shelter to all. Reviewing movements for giving reparations in land to formerly colonized people, marches to control the cost of rent for urban tenants, indigenous land movements, the machinations of development analysts, and the squatters who took matters into their own hands, the book traces the origins of modern proposals for state-engineered "land reform" from Ireland in 1881 through their assassination by the United States in 1974. 0 The book peers into the success and failure of postcolonial programs to protect small farmers in dialogue with the United Nations, World Bank, private institutions, and grassroots movements alike. Touching on the promise and pitfalls of modern ideologies-including international bureaucracies, market ideology, nonviolent protest, and participatory democracy-Jo Guldi provides a definitive narrative of land redistribution and offers an unflinching critique of its failures, working out the promise of politics for how we own property, govern, and adjudicate justice on a changing planet.

Contents:

Introduction: Techniques of Occupancy

1. A Parade for Empire's End

Part I Decolonizing; or, The Rome Consensus and the Peasant Origins of World Government

2. Something Like a Global Government of Land

3. Can Land Redistribution Scale with Population?

Part II Cartophilia; or, Building Information Infrastructures

4. An Information Pipeline

5. On Failing to Make a Map in Time

6. The Questionable Effectiveness of Bibliography

Part III Bureauphobia; or, The Revolt Against Government and the "Third Way"

7. The Peasant's Calculator

8. China and the Battle over Memory

9. Racism, Skepticism, and the Cloak of Science in U.S. Debates About Land Redistribution

10. A Neoliberal Rebellion in Britain

Part IV Res i stance; or, A Democratic Program for Occupancy

11. Techniques of the Mystic: The Long Walk of Vinoba Bhave

12. The Technique of the Squat: The Origins of Squatting After the Second World War

13. The Technique of the Map: Indigenous Title, Rent Control, and Pollution

Epilogue: Why Land Redistribution Matters in the Age of Climate Change

Appendix: A Note on Methodology and Terminology

Timeline

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-556) and index.

ISBN:

030025668X

9780300256680

OCLC:

1262192617