The politics of possession : property, authority and access to natural resources / / edited by Thomas Sikor and Christian Lund
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| Titolo: |
The politics of possession : property, authority and access to natural resources / / edited by Thomas Sikor and Christian Lund
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| Pubblicazione: | Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (223 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 333.3 |
| Soggetto topico: | Natural resources - Political aspects |
| Right of property | |
| Altri autori: |
SikorThomas
LundChristian
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| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The politics of possession |
| ISBN: | 1-282-48339-0 |
| 9786612483394 | |
| 1-4443-2290-7 | |
| 1-4443-2291-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910877585003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Development and change (Unnumbered)