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