Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. INTRODUCTION Land Fictions and the Politics of Commodification in City and Country 1
5. 1 FICTITIOUS BUT NOT UTOPIAN Land Commodification and Dispossession in Rural India 26
6. 2 FICTIONS OF SURPLUS Commodifying Public Land in Canada and the United Kingdom 44
7. 3 FICTIONS OF SAFETY Defensive Storylines in Global Property Investment 62
8. 4 GROUND FICTIONS Soil, Property, and Markets in the Colombian Conflict 86
9. 5 NARRATIVES OF WASTE The Fictions and Frictions of Land Commodification in Liberalizing India 104
10. 6 RENTAL FICTIONS Speculating in Rent-Regulated Housing in New York City 124
11. 7 THE FICTION OF FORMALIZATION Titles, Concessions, and the Politics of Landownership in Cambodia 144
12. 8 REGULARIZATION AND THE FICTIONS OF PLANNING “UNAUTHORIZED DELHI” 161
13. 9 THE SANCTUARY OF THE COLLECTIVE Contesting the Fictions of State-Led Land Commodification in Peri-Urban Guangzhou 180
14. 10 RIGHTS GONE WRONG ON THE CITY’S EDGE The Fictions and Fetishes of Land Documents in Ho Chi Minh City 200
15. 11 WHERE MATERIALITY MEETS SUBJECTIVITY Locating the Political in the Contested Fiction of Urban Land in Camden, New Jersey 224
16. 12 THE STATE OF LAND GRABS Regulatory Fictions in Ghana’s “Small-Scale” Gold Mining Sector 243
17. Afterword LAND FICTIONS IN THE LONGUE DURÉE 257
18. Notes 271
19. References 283
20. Contributors 315
21. Index 319