{"product_id":"land-fictions-9781501753732","title":"Land Fictions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLand Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e explores the common storylines, narratives, and tales of social betterment that justify and enact land as commodity.\u003c\/b\u003e It 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection brings 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. Through a variety of perspectives, \u003ci\u003eLand Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e finds resonances between local stories of land''s fictional powers and global visions of landed property''s imagined power to automatically create value and advance national development. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEditors D. Asher Ghertner and Robert W. Lake unpack the dynamics of land commodification across a broad range of political, spatial, and temporal settings, exp\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe eye-opening table of contents of this important essay collection provides a vivid preview of corruption and transactional dealings among wealthy, powerful, and influential groups in their role as manipulators, through fictitious deals and persuasive campaigns, who encourage advantageous change as applied to land and properties mainly owned by themselves. The bibliography provides a rich multidisciplinary collection of recommendations allowing readers to pursue further insights.\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Land Fictions and the Politics of Commodification in City and Country, by D. Asher Ghertner and Robert W. Lake\u003cbr\u003e 1. Fictitious but Not Utopian: Land Commodification and Dispossession in Rural India, by Michael Levien\u003cbr\u003e 2. Fictions of Surplus: Commodifying Public Land in Canada and the United Kingdom, by Brett Christophers and Heather Whiteside\u003cbr\u003e 3. Fictions of Safety: Defensive Storylines in Global Property Investment, by Sarah Knuth\u003cbr\u003e 4. Ground Fictions: Soil, Property, and Markets in the Colombian Conflict, by Meghan Morris\u003cbr\u003e 5. Narratives of Waste: The Fictions and Frictions of Land Commodification in Liberalizing India, by Sai Balakrishnan\u003cbr\u003e 6. Rental Fictions: Speculating in Rent-Regulated Housing, by Benjamin Teresa\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Fiction of Formalization: Titles, Concessions, and the Politics of Landownership in Cambodia, by Michael L. Dwyer\u003cbr\u003e 8. Regularization and the Fictions of Planning \"Unauthorized Delhi\", by D. Asher Ghertner\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Sanctuary of the Collective: Contesting the Fictions of State-Led Land Commodification in Peri-Urban Guangzhou, by Mi Shih\u003cbr\u003e 10. Rights Gone Wrong on the City's Edge: The Fictions and Fetishes of Land Documents in Ho Chi Minh City, by Erik Harms\u003cbr\u003e 11. Where Materiality Meets Subjectivity: Locating the Political in the Contested Fiction of Urban Land in Camden, New Jersey, by Robert W. Lake\u003cbr\u003e 12. The State of Land Grabs: Regulatory Fictions in Ghana's \"Small-Scale\" Gold Mining Sector, by Heidi Hausermann and David Ferring\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: Land Fictions in the Longue Durée, by Michael Watts\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409349353815,"sku":"9781501753732","price":97.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501753732.jpg?v=1730506511","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/land-fictions-9781501753732","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}