Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: The Social Lives of Land 1
5. Part I UNSETTLED TERRITORIES
6. 1. Colonization and the Recoding of Land in Classical Political Economy 21
7. 2 SHAPING NEW HOMELANDS: Colonial Politics of Land Relations and Management in the Cherokee Nation 51
8. 3 “I AM WAORANI”: Between Indigenous and Settler Land Ontologies in the Ecuadorian Amazon 81
9. 4 WHAT IS LAND? ONTOLOGY, PRACTICE, AND INDETERMINACY 104
10. 5 THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A TRANSYLVANIAN LAND PARCEL: From Late Feudalism to Postsocialism 126
11. Part II MATERIALITIES AND MOBILITIES
12. 6 FROM SAND TO LAND 145
13. 7 WASTELAND AND PARADISE GARDEN: Building Soil in the Brazilian Cerrado 168
14. 8 MOBILE LABOR, SHIFTING LAND REGIMES, AND SOCIAL REPRODUCTION IN EAST JAVA, INDONESIA 190
15. 9 “INCOMPATIBLE WITH A PROGRESSIVE AGRICULTURE”: The Role of Manioc in Colonial and Postcolonial Visions for Land and Labor in Mozambique 221
16. 10 “SITTING ON OLD MATS TO PLAIT NEW”: The Gendered Struggle over Land and Livelihood in Liberia 242
17. Part III SPECULATIVE TRANSFORMATIONS
18. 11 PRODUCING ASSETS: The Social Strife of Land 267
19. 12 THE FINANCIALIZED AND DISPOSSESSED: Transforming Land and Lives into Speculative Assets 289
20. 13 PEOPLE, LIVELIHOODS, AND CONTESTED MEANINGS OF LAND IN TANZANIA 316
21. 14 DANCES WITH LAIRDS: Lessons from Scottish Land Reform 336
22. List of Contributors 365
23. Index 367