Full Description
From the shaping of new homelands in the Cherokee Nation to the export of sand from Cambodia to shore up urban expansion in Singapore, The Social Lives of Land reveals the dynamics of contemporary social and political change.
The editors of this volume bring together contributions from across multiple disciplines and geographic locations. The contributions showcase novel theoretical and empirical insights, analyzing how people are living on, with, and from their land. From Mozambique to India, Indonesia, Ecuador, and the colonial United States, the scholars in this collection uncover histories and retell stories with a focus on the lived experiences of rural and urban land dispossession and repossession.
Contributors: Kati Álvarez, Clint Carroll, Flora Lu, Richard Mbunda, Gregg Mitman, Paul Nadasdy, Robert Nichols, Andrew Ofstehage, Laura Schoenberger, Kirsteen Shields, Emmanuel Sulle, Erik Swyngedouw, Gabriela Valdivia, Katherine Verdery, Callum Ward, Ciara Wirth, Emmanuel King Urey Yarkpawolo
Contents
Introduction: The Social Lives of Land
1. Colonization and the Recoding of Land in Classical Political Economy
2. Shaping New Homelands: Colonial Politics of Land Relations and Management in the Cherokee Nation
3. "I am Waorani": Between Indigenous and Settler Land Ontologies in the Ecuadorian Amazon
4. What is Land? Ontology, Practice, and Indeterminacy
5. The Autobiography of a Transylvanian Land Parcel:From Late Feudalism to Postsocialism
6. From Sand to Land
7. Wasteland and Paradise Garden: Building Soil in the Brazilian Cerrado
8. Mobile Labor, Shifting Land Regimes, and Social Reproduction in East Java, Indonesia
9. "Incompatible with a Progressive Agriculture": The Role of Manioc in Colonial and Postcolonial Visions for Landand Labor in Mozambique
10. "Sitting on Old Mats to Plait New": The Gendered Struggle over Land and Livelihood in Liberia
11. Producing Assets: The Social Strife of Land
12. The Financialized and Dispossessed: Transforming Land and Lives into Speculative Assets
13. People, Livelihoods, and Contested Meanings of Land in Tanzania
14. Dances with Lairds: Lessons from Scottish Land Reform
