Bibframe Work

Title

The social lives of land

Type

Text

Monograph

Contribution

Goldman, Michael, 1960- (editor)

Peluso, Nancy Lee (editor)

Wolford, Wendy (editor)

Subject

Land use--Social aspects (LCSH)

Land tenure--Social aspects (LCSH)

Language

English (eng)

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LCC: HD111 .S635 2024 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

DDC: 333.73 full (Assigner: dlc)(Source: 23/eng/20240104)

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Summary

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

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