Land Fictions : : The Commodification of Land in City and Country / / ed. by D. Asher Ghertner, Robert W. Lake.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Balakrishnan, Sai,; Christophers, Brett,; Dwyer, Michael B.,; Ferring, David,; Ghertner, D. Asher,; Harms, Erik,; Hausermann, Heidi,; Knuth, Sarah,; Lake, Robert W.,; Levien, Michael,; Morris, Meghan L.,; Shih, Mi,; Teresa, Benjamin F.,; Watts, Michael John,; Whiteside, Heather,
• HerausgeberIn: Ghertner, D. Asher,; Lake, Robert W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Cornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Development, and Environment
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (342 p.) :; 11 b&w halftones, 4 maps, 1 graph

Land Fictions explores the common storylines, narratives, and tales of social betterment that justify and enact land as commodity. 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.This 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, Land Fictions 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. Editors D. Asher Ghertner and Robert W. Lake unpack dynamics of land commodification across a broad range of political, spatial, and temporal settings, exposing its simultaneously contingent and collective nature. The essays advance understanding of the politics of land while also contributing to current debates on the intersections of local and global, urban and rural, and general and particular.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION Land Fictions and the Politics of Commodification in City and Country -- 1 FICTITIOUS BUT NOT UTOPIAN Land Commodification and Dispossession in Rural India -- 2 FICTIONS OF SURPLUS Commodifying Public Land in Canada and the United Kingdom -- 3 FICTIONS OF SAFETY Defensive Storylines in Global Property Investment -- 4 GROUND FICTIONS Soil, Property, and Markets in the Colombian Conflict -- 5 NARRATIVES OF WASTE The Fictions and Frictions of Land Commodification in Liberalizing India -- 6 RENTAL FICTIONS Speculating in Rent-Regulated Housing in New York City -- 7 THE FICTION OF FORMALIZATION Titles, Concessions, and the Politics of Landownership in Cambodia -- 8 REGULARIZATION AND THE FICTIONS OF PLANNING “UNAUTHORIZED DELHI” -- 9 THE SANCTUARY OF THE COLLECTIVE Contesting the Fictions of State-Led Land Commodification in Peri-Urban Guangzhou -- 10 RIGHTS GONE WRONG ON THE CITY’S EDGE The Fictions and Fetishes of Land Documents in Ho Chi Minh City -- 11 WHERE MATERIALITY MEETS SUBJECTIVITY Locating the Political in the Contested Fiction of Urban Land in Camden, New Jersey -- 12 THE STATE OF LAND GRABS Regulatory Fictions in Ghana’s “Small-Scale” Gold Mining Sector -- Afterword LAND FICTIONS IN THE LONGUE DURÉE -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index