Places of Possibility - Property, Nature and Community Land Ownership

Informationen zum Autor A. Fiona D. Mackenzie is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and Honorary Professor, University of the Highlands and Islands. Professor Mackenzie has carried out in-depth qualitative research on the Isle of Harris, the Outer Hebrides, and is the author of Land, Ecology and Resistance in Kenya, 1880-1952 (1998). Klappentext Through original research conducted in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, Places of Possibility shows how community land ownership can open up the political, social, environmental, and economic terrain to more socially just and sustainable possibilities than private ownership.* Reveals how community land ownership is more just and sustainable than private ownership* Features original theoretical insights into ideas of property and nature that disrupt the process of neoliberalisation* Based on original research conducted by the author in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland Zusammenfassung Places of Possibility reveals how community land ownership can lead to more socially just and sustainable possibilities than the privatization espoused by neoliberalism. Drawing on comprehensive qualitative research in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, environmental geography specialist A. Fiona D. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Maps viii List of Photographs ix List of Tables x Acknowledgements xi 1 Placing Possibility 1 2 Working Property 34 3 Working Nature 79 4 Working the Wind 127 5 Working Places 175 6 Conclusion - Working Possibilities 214 References 227 Index 248

Product details

• Authors: A Mackenzie, A Fiona D MacKenzie, A. Fiona D. Mackenzie, A. Fiona D. (Carleton University Mackenzie, Fiona Mackenzie
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.12.2012
• EAN: 9781405191715
• ISBN: 978-1-4051-9171-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Antipode Book Series; Antipode Book; Antipode Book Series; Antipode Book
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Geographie, Geography, Politische Geographie, Wirtschaftsgeographie, Political Geography, Environmental Geography, Umweltgeographie, Geography - Planning, Geographie / Planung