Description
Book SynopsisThrough original research conducted in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland,
Places of Possibility shows how community land ownership can open up the political, social, environmental, and economic terrain to more socially just and sustainable possibilities than private ownership.
- Reveals how community land ownership is more just and sustainable than private ownership
- Features original theoretical insights into ideas of property and nature that disrupt the process of neoliberalisation
- Based on original research conducted by the author in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland
Trade Review“As Fiona Mackenzie demonstrates in her important new book, the Highlands and Hebrides have become, in recent years, the center of a sustained effort to construct an alternative, place-based and more generous politics to that of a neoliberal imaginary … Mackenzie has written a book that is thrilling in its optimism and hopefulness. She convincingly explains in compelling detail the hopeful possibilities of the re-commoning in the Hebrides and Highlands. This is rarely the stuff of academic study but is at the heart of Places of Possibility’s profound ambitions and most important contribution: anticipating ‘more socially, environmentally and economically generous postneoliberalisms’.” (Antipode, 1 September 2013)
Table of ContentsList of Maps viii
List of Photographs ix
List of Tables x
Acknowledgements xi
1 Placing Possibility 1
2 Working Property 34
3 Working Nature 79
4 Working the Wind 127
5 Working Places 175
6 Conclusion – Working Possibilities 214
References 227
Index 248
