The politics of possession : property, authority and access to natural resources /

The Politics of Possession investigates how struggles over access to resources and political power constitute property and authority recursively. Such dynamics are integral to state formation in societies characterized by normative and legal pluralism. Includes some of the latest theoretical work on...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Sikor, Thomas, Lund, Christian
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Series:	Development and change (Unnumbered)
Subjects:	Natural resources > Political aspects. Right of property. natuurlijke hulpbronnen natural resources bezitting possession eigendom ownership economie economics autoriteit authority recht law politiek politics grondrechten land rights Natural Resource Economics Political Science(General) Economie van natuurlijke hulpbronnen Politieke wetenschappen (algemeen) Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Notes on 1 Access and Property: A Question of Power and Authority
2 Property, Authority and Citizenship: Land Claims, Politics and the Dynamics of Social Division in West Africa
3 Rubber Erasures, Rubber Producing Rights: Making Racialized Territories in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
4 Ruling by Record: The Meaning of Rights, Rules and Registration in an Andean Comunidad
5 Authority over Forests: Empowerment and Subordination in Senegal's Democratic Decentralization
6 Recategorizing 'Public' and 'Private' Property in Ghana
7 Land Access and Titling in Nicaragua
8 Negotiating Post-Socialist Property and State: Struggles over Forests in Albania and Romania
9 Property and Authority in a Migrant Society: Balinese Irrigators in Sulawesi, Indonesia
Index