UID:
almafu_9959327876702883
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 213 pages)
ISBN:
9781444322903
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1444322907
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9781444322910
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1444322915
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1282483390
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9781282483392
Series Statement:
Development and change book series
Content:
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 study of everyday processes.
Note:
Notes on 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 Nicaragua -- 8 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
Additional Edition:
Print version: Politics of possession. Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 ISBN 9781405196567
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1405196564
Language:
English
Keywords:
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.1002/9781444322903
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781444322903
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781444322903
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781444322903
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