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Land Fictions: The Commodification of Land in City and Country
Land Fictions: The Commodification of Land in City and Country
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Land Fictions explores the common storylines, narratives, and tales of social betterment that justify and enact land as a commodity, interrogating global patterns of property formation, dispossessions, and popular movements to halt evictions and land grabs. The collection brings together original research on urban, rural, and peri-urban India, China, Southeast Asia, Africa, Latin America, and North America, finding resonances between local stories and global visions of landed property's imagined power.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 342 pages
Publication date: 15 March 2021
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Land Fictions delves into the pervasive narratives, storylines, and tales that underpin the commodification of land, providing justification for its transformation into a commodity. It critically examines global patterns of property formation, the dispossessions facilitated by property markets, and the widespread movements aimed at curbing the escalating waves of evictions and land grabs. This comprehensive collection brings together original research on diverse regions, including 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. By exploring a range of perspectives, Land Fictions uncovers resonances between local stories of land's fictional powers and global visions of landed property's imagined power to automatically generate value and propel national development.
Editors D. Asher Ghertner and Robert W. Lake meticulously unpack the intricate dynamics of land commodification across a wide spectrum of political, spatial, and temporal contexts, revealing its inherently contingent and collective nature. The essays in this volume contribute to our understanding of land politics while also engaging with ongoing discussions about the intersections of local and global, urban and rural, and general and particular.
Contributors to Land Fictions include esteemed scholars Erik Harms, Michael Watts, Sai Balakrishnan, Brett Christophers, David Ferring, Sarah Knuth, Meghan Morris, Benjamin Teresa, Mi Shih, Michael Levien, Michael L. Dwyer, and Heather Whiteside. Their insights and perspectives enrich the discourse on land commodification and its profound implications for society.
Weight: 522g
Dimension: 152 x 230 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781501753961
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