Land fictions : the commodification of land in city and country /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ghertner, D. Asher (Editor), Lake, Robert W., 1946- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Series:Cornell series on land.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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 DurĂ©e / Michael J. Watts.