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Book SynopsisFocusing on sites of friction in property regimes, this book reveals that a politics of place can help local actors build bases of autonomy to withstand, and even reshape, the forces of globalization.
Table of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Property, Autonomy, Territory, and Globalization / Scott Prudham and William D. Coleman
2 The Globalization of International Law, Indigenous Identity, and the New Constitutionalism / A. Claire Cutler
3 Lifeworlds and Property: Epistemological Challenges to Cree Concepts of Land in the Twentieth Century / Susan M. Preston
4 Making Forests “Normal”: Sustained Yield, Improvement, and the Establishment of Globalist Forestry in British Columbia / Scott Prudham
5 Contested Autonomy: Globalization and Miskito Customary Property Rights in the Rio Plantano Biosphere Reserve / Sharlene Mollett
6 Globalization, Intellectual Property, and the Emergence of New Property Types / Daniel Gorman
7 Competing or Relational Autonomies? Globalization, Property, and Friction over Land Rights / Eva Mackey
8 Plant Genetic Resources, Farmers’ Rights, and the Globalization of Intellectual Property Rights: Reinforcing Asymmetries in Autonomies / William D. Coleman and Austina J. Reed
9 Globalization without World Order: Intellectual Property and Its Discontents / Anna Greenspan
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10 Property Rites: Cultural Narrations of the Palestinian Catastrophe / Jasmin Habib
Notes and Acknowledgments; Works Cited; Contributors; Index
