ISBN:
9781501771248
,
9781501771231
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 387 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Diagramme
Series Statement:
Cornell series on land: new perspectives on territory, development, and environment
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Social lives of land
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The Social Lives of Land
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Goldman, Michael, 1960 - The Social Lives of Land
DDC:
333.73
Keywords:
Landnutzung
;
Bodenrecht
;
Lebensstandard
;
Soziale Lage
;
Welt
;
Land use Social aspects
;
Land tenure Social aspects
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
"This edited volume brings together contributions across multiple disciplines, weaving broad theoretical and empirical insights from Mozambique to India, Indonesia, Ecuador, Tanzania, Liberia, Cambodia, Scotland, Canada, Transylvania, Brazil, and the colonial United States. The authors draw on original research to analyze the lived experiences of land dispossession and repossession."
Description / Table of Contents:
Colonization and the recoding of land in classical political economy / Robert Nichols -- Shaping new homelands: colonial politics of land relations and management in the Cherokee Nation / Clint Carroll -- "I am Waorani": between indigenous and settler land ontologies in the Ecuadorian -- Amazon / Kati Alvarez, Ciara Wirth, Gabriela Valdivia, and Flora Lu -- What is land? ontology, practice, and indeterminacy / Paul Nadasdy -- The autobiography of a Transylvanian land parcel: from late feudalism to postsocialism / Katherine Verdery -- From sand to land / Laura Schoenberger -- Wasteland and paradise garden: building soil in the Brazilian Cerrado / Andrew Ofstehage -- Mobile labor, shifting land regimes, and social reproduction in East Java, Indonesia / Nancy Lee Peluso -- "Incompatible with a progressive agriculture": the role of manioc in colonial and postcolonial visions for land and labor in Mozambique / Wendy Wolford -- "Sitting on old mats to plait new": the gendered struggle over land and livelihood in Liberia / Gregg Mitman and Emmanuel King Urey Yarkpawolo -- Producing assets: the social strife of land / Erik Swyngedouw and Callum Ward -- The financialized and dispossessed: transforming land and lives into speculative assets / Michael Goldman -- People, livelihoods, and contested meanings of land in Tanzania / Emmanuel Sulle and Richard Mbunda -- Dances with lairds: lessons from Scottish land reform / Kirsteen Shields.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
