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 scholarship online.

Yale agrarian studies

Yale scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land reform.

Land reform--Political aspects.

Land tenure--Law and legislation.

Land tenure.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (600 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Jo Guldi tells the story of a global struggle to bring food, water, and shelter to all. Land is shown to be a central motor of politics in the twentieth century: the basis of movements for giving reparations to formerly colonized people, protests to limit the rent paid by urban tenants, intellectual battles among development analysts, and the capture of land by squatters taking matters into their own hands. The book describes the results of state-engineered 'land reform' policies beginning in Ireland in 1881 until U.S.-led interests and the World Bank effectively killed them off in 1974.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

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:

Also issued in print: 2021.

"An online version of the work is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-300-26486-0

OCLC:

1302007185