The social lives of land / edited by Michael Goldman, Nancy Lee Peluso, and Wendy Wolford.
| Other author | Goldman, Michael, 1960- |
| Other author | Peluso, Nancy Lee. |
| Other author | Wolford, Wendy. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2024. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Cornell series on land: new perspectives on territory, development, and environment |
| 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. |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Social lives of land Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2024 9781501771231 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023057231 |
| ISBN | 9781501771811 (epub) |
| ISBN | 9781501771828 (pdf) |
| ISBN | (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |