New Frontiers of Land Control

ISBN-13: 9780415529907 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 256 str.

Nancy Lee Peluso; Christian Lund

Opis

The authors in this volume focus primarily on new frontiers of land control and their active creation. These frontiers are sites where authorities, sovereignties, rights and hegemonies of the recent past have been challenged by new enclosures, property regimes and territorializations.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: New Frontiers of Land Control  2. Conservation Practice as Primitive Accumulation  3. Territorialization, Enclosure and Neoliberalism: Non-State Influence in Struggles over Madagascar’s Forests  4. Making Spaces, Making Subjects: Land, Enclosure and Islam in Colonial Malaya  5. Ceasefire Capitalism: Military-Private Partnerships, Resource Concessions, and Military-State Building in the Burma-China Borderlands  6. The Rifle and the Title: Paramilitary Violence, Land Grab and Land Control in Colombia  7. Privatizing the Tzuultaq'a? Private Property and Spiritual Reproduction in Post-War Guatemala  8. Emergent Forest and Private Land Regimes in Java  9. Land Grabs, Land Control, and Southeast Asian Crop Booms  10. Carbon Forestry and Agrarian Change: Access and Land Control in a Mexican Rainforest  11. Fragmented Sovereignty: Land Reform and Dispossession in Laos 

O autorze

Nancy Lee Peluso is Henry J. Vaux Distinguished Professor of Forest Policy and Professor of Society and Environment in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California, USA. She is Co-Director of the Berkeley Workshop in Environmental Politics. Christian Lund is Professor of Development Studies at Roskilde University, Denmark and the Director of the Research Unit, ProCit (Property and Citizenship in Developing Societies).