The Politics Of Possession Property Authority And Access To Natural Resources Christian Lund by Christian Lund, Thomas Sikor 9781405196567, 9781444322903, 1405196564, 1444322907 instant download after payment.

• Includes some of the latest theoretical work on the dynamics of access and property and how they are joined to questions of power and authority
• Explores how access to resources is often contested and rife with conflict, particularly in post-colonial and post-socialist countries
• Offers a thought-provoking approach to the study of everyday processes of state formation
• Shows how the process of seeking authorization for property claims works to legitimize the authorizers, and the efforts undertaken by politico-legal institutions to gain legitimacy underpin and undermine various claims of access and property
• Contributors explore from a wide empirical compass of original research spanning Latin America, Africa, South-East Asia, and Eastern Europe

Content:
Chapter 1 Access and Property: A Question of Power and Authority (pages 1–22): Thomas Sikor and Christian Lund
Chapter 2 Property, Authority and Citizenship: Land Claims, Politics and the Dynamics of Social Division in West Africa (pages 23–45): Sara Berry
Chapter 3 Rubber Erasures, Rubber Producing Rights: Making Racialized Territories in West Kalimantan, Indonesia (pages 46–78): Nancy Lee Peluso
Chapter 4 Ruling by Record: The Meaning of Rights, Rules and Registration in an Andean Comunidad (pages 79–100): Monique Nuijten and David Lorenzo
Chapter 5 Authority over Forests: Empowerment and Subordination in Senegal's Democratic Decentralization (pages 101–124): Jesse C. Ribot
Chapter 6 Recategorizing ‘Public’ and ‘Private’ Property in Ghana (pages 125–141): Christian Lund
Chapter 7 Land Access and Titling in Nicaragua (pages 142–161): Rikke B. Broegaard
Chapter 8 Negotiating Post?Socialist Property and State: Struggles over Forests in Albania and Romania (pages 162–183): Thomas Sikor, Johannes Stahl and Stefan Dorondel
Chapter 9 Property and Authority in a Migrant Society: Balinese Irrigators in Sulawesi, Indonesia (pages 184–206): Dik Roth