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The Politics of Land
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Edited by Bartley, Tim
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The politics of land are vital. They stretch from fights over fracking, gentrification, and taxation to land grabs, dispossession, and border conflicts. And they raise crucial questions about power, authority, violence, populism, and neoliberalism. This volume of Research in Poli...tical Sociology seeks to carve out a renewed political sociology of land, bringing together classic questions about the state, commodification, and social change and contemporary studies of contentious land use in various parts of the world. An introductory essay sketches foundations for a political sociology of land and specifies what is unique about land in comparison to other political objects. Chapters are based on highly original qualitative, quantitative, and/or historical analyses to shed light on numerous dimensions of land politics. They include analyses of anti-fracking campaigns, property tax caps, and green gentrification in the United States, soil protection regulation in Europe, squatter settlements in Peru, land grabs in peri-urban China and rural Senegal, violent expulsions in Colombia, and the privatization of property rights in Morocco. The volume brings together high quality, peer-reviewed research, opens up novel comparisons, and enriches theories of the state, commodification, and collective resistance.
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General Audience |
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General Audience |
Library of Congress |
Political sociology, Land tenure - Political aspects, Land tenure - Social aspects |
NBS Text |
Geography |
ONIX Text |
Professional and scholarly |
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Author's Bio
Tim Bartley is Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. He is the author of Rules without Rights: Land, Labor, and Private Authority in the Global Economy, which examines sustainability and labor standards in Indonesia and China, and 'Transnational Corporations and Global Governance', published in the Annual Review of Sociology.
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