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Informationen zum Autor D. Asher Ghertner is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Rutgers University. He is author of Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi . Robert W. Lake is Professor Emeritus in the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. He is co-editor of The Power of Pragmatism . Klappentext "Bringing 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, this book 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 they face" Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Land Fictions and the Politics of Commodification in City and Country, by D. Asher Ghertner and Robert W. Lake 1. Fictitious but Not Utopian: Land Commodification and Dispossession in Rural India, by Michael Levien 2. Fictions of Surplus: Commodifying Public Land in Canada and the United Kingdom, by Brett Christophers and Heather Whiteside 3. Fictions of Safety: Defensive Storylines in Global Property Investment, by Sarah Knuth 4. Ground Fictions: Soil, Property, and Markets in the Colombian Conflict, by Meghan Morris 5. Narratives of Waste: The Fictions and Frictions of Land Commodification in Liberalizing India, by Sai Balakrishnan 6. Rental Fictions: Speculating in Rent-Regulated Housing, by Benjamin Teresa 7. The Fiction of Formalization: Titles, Concessions, and the Politics of Landownership in Cambodia, by Michael L. Dwyer 8. Regularization and the Fictions of Planning "Unauthorized Delhi", by D. Asher Ghertner 9. The Sanctuary of the Collective: Contesting the Fictions of State-Led Land Commodification in Peri-Urban Guangzhou, by Mi Shih 10. Rights Gone Wrong on the City's Edge: The Fictions and Fetishes of Land Documents in Ho Chi Minh City, by Erik Harms 11. Where Materiality Meets Subjectivity: Locating the Political in the Contested Fiction of Urban Land in Camden, New Jersey, by Robert W. Lake 12. The State of Land Grabs: Regulatory Fictions in Ghana's "Small-Scale" Gold Mining Sector, by Heidi Hausermann and David Ferring Afterword: Land Fictions in the Longue Durée, by Michael Watts ...
