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Record Nr.

UNINA9910830608703321

Titolo

The politics of possession [[electronic resource] ] : property, authority and access to natural resources / / edited by Thomas Sikor and Christian Lund

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, c2009

ISBN

1-282-48339-0

9786612483394

1-4443-2290-7

1-4443-2291-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Collana

Development and change book series

Altri autori (Persone)

SikorThomas

LundChristian

Disciplina

333.3

Soggetti

Natural resources - Political aspects

Right of property

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Originally published as Volume 40, Issue 1 of Development and Change."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Politics of Possession; Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1 Access and Property: A Question of Power and Authority; 2 Property, Authority and Citizenship: Land Claims, Politics and the Dynamics of Social Division in West Africa; 3 Rubber Erasures, Rubber Producing Rights: Making Racialized Territories in West Kalimantan, Indonesia; 4 Ruling by Record: The Meaning of Rights, Rules and Registration in an Andean Comunidad; 5 Authority over Forests: Empowerment and Subordination in Senegal's Democratic Decentralization; 6 Recategorizing 'Public' and 'Private' Property in Ghana

7 Land Access and Titling in Nicaragua8 Negotiating Post-Socialist Property and State: Struggles over Forests in Albania and Romania; 9 Property and Authority in a Migrant Society: Balinese Irrigators in Sulawesi, Indonesia; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Politics of Possession investigates how struggles over access to resources and political power constitute property and authority recursively. Such dynamics are integral to state formation in societies



characterized by normative and legal pluralism. Includes some of the latest theoretical work on the dynamics of access and property and how they are joined to questions of power and authorityExplores how access to resources is often contested and rife with conflict, particularly in post-colonial and post-socialist countriesOffers a thought-provoking approach to the stud