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3 FICTIONS OF SAFETY Defensive Storylines in Global Property Investment
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Sarah Knuth
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- INTRODUCTION Land Fictions and the Politics of Commodification in City and Country 1
- 1 FICTITIOUS BUT NOT UTOPIAN Land Commodification and Dispossession in Rural India 26
- 2 FICTIONS OF SURPLUS Commodifying Public Land in Canada and the United Kingdom 44
- 3 FICTIONS OF SAFETY Defensive Storylines in Global Property Investment 62
- 4 GROUND FICTIONS Soil, Property, and Markets in the Colombian Conflict 86
- 5 NARRATIVES OF WASTE The Fictions and Frictions of Land Commodification in Liberalizing India 104
- 6 RENTAL FICTIONS Speculating in Rent-Regulated Housing in New York City 124
- 7 THE FICTION OF FORMALIZATION Titles, Concessions, and the Politics of Landownership in Cambodia 144
- 8 REGULARIZATION AND THE FICTIONS OF PLANNING “UNAUTHORIZED DELHI” 161
- 9 THE SANCTUARY OF THE COLLECTIVE Contesting the Fictions of State-Led Land Commodification in Peri-Urban Guangzhou 180
- 10 RIGHTS GONE WRONG ON THE CITY’S EDGE The Fictions and Fetishes of Land Documents in Ho Chi Minh City 200
- 11 WHERE MATERIALITY MEETS SUBJECTIVITY Locating the Political in the Contested Fiction of Urban Land in Camden, New Jersey 224
- 12 THE STATE OF LAND GRABS Regulatory Fictions in Ghana’s “Small-Scale” Gold Mining Sector 243
- Afterword LAND FICTIONS IN THE LONGUE DURÉE 257
- Notes 271
- References 283
- Contributors 315
- Index 319
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- INTRODUCTION Land Fictions and the Politics of Commodification in City and Country 1
- 1 FICTITIOUS BUT NOT UTOPIAN Land Commodification and Dispossession in Rural India 26
- 2 FICTIONS OF SURPLUS Commodifying Public Land in Canada and the United Kingdom 44
- 3 FICTIONS OF SAFETY Defensive Storylines in Global Property Investment 62
- 4 GROUND FICTIONS Soil, Property, and Markets in the Colombian Conflict 86
- 5 NARRATIVES OF WASTE The Fictions and Frictions of Land Commodification in Liberalizing India 104
- 6 RENTAL FICTIONS Speculating in Rent-Regulated Housing in New York City 124
- 7 THE FICTION OF FORMALIZATION Titles, Concessions, and the Politics of Landownership in Cambodia 144
- 8 REGULARIZATION AND THE FICTIONS OF PLANNING “UNAUTHORIZED DELHI” 161
- 9 THE SANCTUARY OF THE COLLECTIVE Contesting the Fictions of State-Led Land Commodification in Peri-Urban Guangzhou 180
- 10 RIGHTS GONE WRONG ON THE CITY’S EDGE The Fictions and Fetishes of Land Documents in Ho Chi Minh City 200
- 11 WHERE MATERIALITY MEETS SUBJECTIVITY Locating the Political in the Contested Fiction of Urban Land in Camden, New Jersey 224
- 12 THE STATE OF LAND GRABS Regulatory Fictions in Ghana’s “Small-Scale” Gold Mining Sector 243
- Afterword LAND FICTIONS IN THE LONGUE DURÉE 257
- Notes 271
- References 283
- Contributors 315
- Index 319