| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 333 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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text file |
| Series |
Cornell series on land : new perspectives on territory, development, and environment
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Cornell series on land.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 Durée / Michael J. Watts. |
| Summary |
"Bringing together original research on 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, this book interrogates global patterns of property formation, the dispossessions property markets enact, and the popular movements to halt the growing waves of evictions and land grabs they face" Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Land use -- Economic aspects.
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Land use, Urban -- Economic aspects.
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Land use, Urban -- Economic aspects. |
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Land use, Urban. |
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Land use, Rural -- Economic aspects.
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Land use, Rural -- Economic aspects. |
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Land use, Rural. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development. |
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Land use -- Economic aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Ghertner, D. Asher, editor.
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Lake, Robert W., 1946- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Land fictions Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021. 9781501753732 (DLC) 2020021490 |
| ISBN |
9781501753756 electronic book |
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1501753754 electronic book |
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9781501753749 electronic book |
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1501753746 electronic book |
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9781501753732 hardcover |
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9781501753961 paperback |
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