{"product_id":"the-politics-of-possession-9781405196567","title":"The Politics of Possession","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Possession\u003c\/i\u003e investigates how struggles over access to resources and political power constitute property and authority recursively. Such dynamics are integral to state formation in societies characterized by normative and legal pluralism.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes some of the latest theoretical work on the dynamics of access and property and how they are joined to questions of power and authority\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores how access to resources is often contested and rife with conflict, particularly in post-colonial and post-socialist countries\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a thought-provoking approach to the study of everyday processes of state formation\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eShows how the process of seeking authorization for property claims works to legitimize the authorizers, and the efforts undertaken by politico-legal institutions to gain legitimacy underpin and undermine various claims of access and property\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eContributors explore from a wide empirical compass of original research spanning La\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Contributors.  \u003cp\u003e1. Access and Property: A Question of Power and Authority (\u003ci\u003eThomas Sikor, University of East Anglia and Christian Lund, Roskilde University, Denmark\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Property, Authority and Citizenship: Land Claims, Politics and the Dynamics of Social Division in West Africa (\u003ci\u003eSara Berry, Johns Hopkins University\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Rubber Erasures, Rubber Producing Rights: Making Racialized Territories in West Kalimantan, Indonesia (\u003ci\u003eNancy Lee Peluso, University of California, Berkeley\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Ruling by Record: The Meaning of Rights, Rules and Registration in an Andean Comunidad (\u003ci\u003eMonique Nuijten, Wageningen University\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDavid Lorenzo, Roskilde University, Denmark\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Authority over Forests: Empowerment and Subordination in Senegal’s Democratic Decentralization (\u003ci\u003eJesse C. Ribot, University of Illinois\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Recategorizing ‘Public’ and ‘Private’ Property in Ghana (\u003ci\u003eChristian Lund, Roskilde University, Denmark\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Land Access and Titling in Nicaragua (\u003ci\u003eRikke B. Broegaard, Danish Institute for International Studies\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Negotiating Post-Socialist Property and State: Struggles over Forests in Albania and Romania (\u003ci\u003eThomas Sikor, University of East Anglia; Johannes Stahl, University of California, Berkeley; and Stefan Dorondel, Humboldt University Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Property and Authority in a Migrant Society: Balinese Irrigators in Sulawesi, Indonesia (\u003ci\u003eDik Roth, Wageningen University\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407929942359,"sku":"9781405196567","price":35.18,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405196567.jpg?v=1730500992","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-politics-of-possession-9781405196567","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}