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• Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables
• 1 Introduction 1.1 The State of Emergency in Laikipia, 2016-17 1.2 Organisation of Chapters
• 2 Setting and Thematic Components 2.1 Setting the Scene 2.2 Notes on the Sensitivity to Voices in a Fragmented Setting 2.3 Case Selection and Ecological Overview 2.4 Thematic Components
• 2.4.1 Contested Lands
• 2.4.2 Ethnicity and Autochthony
• 2.4.3 Fragmentation and Frontiers
• 2.4.4 Commons and Customary Resources
• 2.4.5 Plural Perspectives on Sustainable Land Management 2.5 Concluding Remarks
• 3 Macro Perspectives: A History of Laikipia's Contested Lands 3.1 Laikipia in the Nineteenth Century 3.2 Colonial Rule in Laikipia
• 3.2.1 The Kenya Land Commission, 1932-34
• 3.2.2 The Land Commission Questions
• 3.2.3 The African Reaction
• 3.2.4 The Emergent Urban Population and Trade 3.3 Independence Politics and the Repercussions of the Mau Mau
• 3.3.1 Pre-independence Mobility
• 3.3.2 Transition of Power and Land
• 3.3.3 Post-independence Politics
• 3.3.4 Land Reform and Resettlement Schemes 3.4 Post-colonial Land: Times of Autochthony
• 3.4.1 Immigration and Land-use Fragmentation
• 3.4.2 Violence and Political Instrumentalism 3.5 Concluding Remarks
• 4 Blaming the Others: Ethnic Identity and Claim-making 4.1 Historical Grievances
• 4.1.1 Present-day Grievances: Land, Ethnicity and Politics 4.2 Meta-Narratives of Claims and Their Repercussions in Lorien 4.3 Discursive Claims to Land
• 4.3.1 The Pastoralists
• 4.3.2 The Smallholders
• 4.3.3 The Ranchers
• 4.3.4 The Conservationists
• 4.3.5 The Absentees
• 4.3.6 Group Mobility 4.4 When Claims of Entitlement Are Acted Out
• 4.4.1 Encroachment and Raiding
• 4.4.2 Killing of Wildlife 4.5 Concluding Remarks
• 5 Enclosing the Land: From Common Land to Freehold Farmland and Back 5.1 The Construction of Enclosure in Laikipia: The Story of the Dykes 5.2 Towards Land Enclosures in Ol Moran and Thome
• 5.2.1 Symbolic Enclosures in Thome
• 5.2.2 Physically Enacted Enclosures in Ol Moran 5.3Present-day Enclosures in Laikipia
• 5.3.1 Practices of Enclosing Space: The Naming of Places
• 5.3.2 Physical Enclosures: Fencing 5.4 Concluding Remarks
• 6 Ambiguous Institutions: Twilight Actions of Land-buying Companies 6.1 All Things Come to Those Who Wait - or Do They? 6.2 The History of Land-buying Companies and Land Hunger 6.3 Institutional Pluralism and Land 6.4 The Case of Thome Farmers Company 6.5 The Power Dynamics of Land-buying Companies 6.6 Repercussions of Private Land Redistribution
• 6.6.1 Absentee Landlords
• 6.6.2 Absent Title Deeds and Vernacular Land Markets 6.7 Concluding Remarks
• 7 Africanisation or Invasion: Laikipia's land-use Change 7.1 Diachronic Perspectives on Land-use Change in Three Case Study Areas
• 7.1.1 Lorien
• 7.1.2 Ol Moran
• 7.1.3 Thome 7.2 Historical Perceptions of the Landscape
• 7.2.1 Travel Writers' Perceptions of New Land
• 7.2.2 Rights, Borders and Water: Land-use Practices from the 1930s
• 7.2.3 The Peak and Transition of European Settlement in the 1960s 7.3 Present-day Land-use Dynamics of an Africanised Landscape 7.4 Concluding Remarks
• 8 Conclusion 8.1 Understanding Laikipia
• 8.1.1 Frontiers, Fragmentation and Colonial Residue
• 8.1.2 Legal Pluralism and Land Rights
• 8.1.3 Ethnicity and the Politicisation of Land Claims
• 8.1.4 The Sustainablity of Land-management Practices 8.2 Resolving the State of Emergency in Laikipia, 2016-17 8.3 Final Thoughts
• Bibliography Index.
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Pastoralists, ranchers of European descent, conservationists, smallholders, and land investors with political influence converge on the Laikipia plateau in Kenya. Land is claimed by all - the tactics differ. Private property rights are presented, histories of presence are told, charges of immorality are applied, fences are electrified and some resort to violence. The region, marked by enclosures, is left as a tense fragmented frontier. Marie Gravesen embedded herself in the region prior to a wave of land invasions that swept the plateau leading up to Kenya's 2017 general election. Through a rich telling of the history of Laikipia's social, political and environmental dynamics, she invites a deeper understanding of the pre-election violence and general tensions as never done before.
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• General background of the inter-American system
• First wave : individual indigenous persons as holders of Land Rights,
• 2001- 2006
• Second wave : transition toward indigenous peoples as holders of Land Rights,
• 2007- 2011
• Third wave : indigenous peoples as holders of Land Rights, 2012-2019.

"Mariana Monteiro de Matos, a brilliant young scholar, dedicates this book to the mighty Amazon, her "waterland," and its peoples. Born and raised in northwest Brazil, she has witnessed in close proximity the alarming harm done to this lung of the Earth as well as the threats to the survival, both physical and cultural, of its natural stewards, its indigenous peoples. She has also seen the resistance rising against the razing of all cultural differences in the name of an allegedly superior modern civilization, based on overweening economic and military might. The banner- cry of this resistance was the plea to accommodate vastly different ways of life, identities, affiliations, and allegiances around the world. The author has coined the term "polyversity" to encapsulate this policy goal"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction / Varsha Bhagat-Ganguly
• Approaches and methods of land title legislation in India : far from reality or close to the ground? / Amlanjyoti Goswami, Deepika Jha, and Kaye Lushington
• Critical assessment of recent real estate regulatory reforms in urban spaces : whether trickle-down effect is for all? / Ray Sharat Prasad
• The forest rights struggle and redefining the frontiers of governance : dismantling hegemony, restructuring authority, and collectivising control / C.R. Bijoy
• Maharashtra Agricultural Land Leasing Bill, 2017 : exploring opportunities for landless and women's collectives / Seema Kulkarni and Pallavi Harshe
• Customary rights and traditional wisdom : furthering land governance in Northeast India / Sonali Ghosh and Chandra Bhushan Kumar
• Land acquisition law in neoliberal India : old wine in a new bottle? / Rita Sinha
• Land acquisition for economic development : a comparative analysis of some landmark court judgments of the United States of America and India / Malabika Pal
• Neoliberalism, environmental protection, and regulation of land / Shiju Mazhuvanchery

This book examines the land question in neoliberal India based on a cohesive framework focusing on socio-legal and judicial interactions in a point of departure from the political-economy approach to land issues. It sheds light on several complex aspects of land matters in India and evolves a critical and multi-dimensional discourse by mapping out exchanges between social and political actors, the State, elites, citizenry, and the legal battle or judicial interpretations on land as right to property. Based on the themes of socio-legal policy and perspective on 'land' on the one hand and jurisprudence on the land question on the other, the volume discusses topics such as conclusive land titling; urban land governance; governance of forest land; land-leasing practices, policies, and interventions from the perspective of women; land acquisition policies and laws; how land matters interface with environmental issues; and judicial debates on 'compensation' against land acquisitions. It covers a wide range of case studies from all over India by bringing together specialists from across backgrounds. Comprehensive and topical, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of development studies, political studies, law, sociology, political economy, and public policy, as well as to professionals in NGOs, civil society organisations, think tanks, planning and public administration, lawyers, civil services and training institutes, and judicial and forest academies. Those working on rural and urban land issues in India, land management, land governance, environmental laws and governance, property rights, resource conflicts, social work, and rural development will find this book to be of special interest. .
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• Introduction: Angela Cameron, Sari Graben and Val Napoleon: "The Role of Indigenous Laws in the Privatisation of Lands"
• Part 1: Indigenous Law in Practice
• 1. Emily Snyder and Val Napoleon: "Housing on Reserve: Developing a Critical Indigenous Feminist Property Theory"
• 2. Shalene Jobin: "Market Citizenship and Indigeneity"
• 3. Sarah Morales and Brian Thom: "The Principle of Sharing and the Shadow of Canadian Law"
• Part II: Political Issues
• 4. Nathalie Kermoal and Sarah Carter: "Canadian Aboriginal Politics: From Thomas Flanagan to the Conservatives"
• 5. Richard Daly: "Conceptualizing Aboriginal Taxpayers, Real Property and Communities of Sharing"
• 6. Jamie Baxter: "Social Movements and the Interpretation of Indigenous Land Rights"
• Part III: Common Law's Response
• 7. Michel Morin & Denis Blanchette: "Custom, Family Residences and the Indian Act"
• 8. Sari Graben and Christian Morey: "Aboriginal Title in Tsilhqot'in: Indigenous Property Law at the Supreme Court of Canada"
• Part IV: Lessons from the Transnational Context
• 9. Ibironke Odumosu "Property Rights in Nigeria's Niger Delta: Interactions between Customary Law and the Government's Oil and Gas Regime".
• 10. Tenile Brown: "Locating the Woman: a note on customary law and the utility of real property in the Swaziland context".
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While colonial imposition of the Canadian legal order has undermined Indigenous law, creating gaps and sometimes distortions, Indigenous peoples have taken up the challenge of rebuilding their laws, governance, and economies. Indigenous conceptions of land and property are central to this project. Creating Indigenous Property identifies how contemporary Indigenous conceptions of property are rooted in and informed by their societally specific norms, meanings, and ethics. Through detailed analysis, the authors illustrate that unexamined and unresolved contradictions between the historic and the present have created powerful competing versions of Indigenous law, legal authorities, and practices that reverberate through Indigenous communities. They have identified the contradictions and conflicts within Indigenous communities about relationships to land and non-human life forms, about responsibilities to one another, about environmental decisions, and about wealth distribution. Creating Indigenous Property contributes to identifying the way that Indigenous discourses, processes, and institutions can empower the use of Indigenous law. The book explores different questions generated by these dynamics, including: Where is the public/private divide in Indigenous and Canadian law, and why should it matter? How do land and property shape local economies? Whose voices are heard in debates over property and why are certain voices missing? How does gender matter to the conceptualization of property and the Indigenous legal imagination? What is the role and promise of Indigenous law in negotiating new relationships between Indigenous peoples and Canada? In grappling with these questions, readers will join the authors in exploring the conditions under which Canadian and Indigenous legal orders can productively co-exist.
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Smallholder farmers' investment decisions and the efficiency of resource allocation depend on the security of land tenure. This paper develops a simple model that captures essential institutional features of rural land markets in Ghana, including the dependence of future rights over land on current cultivation and land rental decisions. The model predictions guide the evaluation of a pilot land titling intervention that took place in an urbanizing area located in the Central Region of Ghana. The evaluation is based on a regression discontinuity design combined with three rounds of household survey data collected over a period of six years. The analysis finds strong markers for the program's success in registering land in the targeted program area. However, land registration does not translate into agricultural investments or increased credit taking. Instead, treated households decrease their amount of agricultural labor, accompanied by only a small reduction of agricultural production and no changes in productivity. In line with this result, households decrease their landholdings amid a surge in land valuations. The analysis uncovers important within-household differences in how women and men respond differentially to the program. There appears to be a general shift to nonfarm economic activities, and women's business profits increased considerably

• Introduction
• 1 Atlantic Oligarchy
• 2 The Three Kingdoms
• 3 The Adventure for Irish land
• 4 Grocers Hall
• 5 Commonwealth
• 6 Republic
• 7 Restoration Conclusion Index
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This book is about the transformation of England's trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, a revolution that destroyed Ireland. In 1642 a small group of merchants, the 'Adventurers for Irish land', raised an army to conquer Ireland but sent it instead to fight for parliament in England. Meeting secretly at Grocers Hall in London from 1642 to 1660, they laid the foundations of England's empire and modern fiscal state. But a dispute over their Irish land entitlements led them to reject Cromwell's Protectorate and plot to restore the monarchy. This is the first book to chart the relentless rise of the Adventurers and their profound political influence. It is essential reading for students of Britain and Ireland in the mid-seventeenth century, the origins of England's empire and the Cromwellian land settlement. -- .
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Foundational to the monitoring of international goals on land ownership and rights are the household survey respondents who provide the required individual-disaggregated data. Leveraging two national surveys in Malawi that differed in their approach to respondent selection, this study shows that, compared with the international best practice of privately interviewing adults about their personal asset ownership and rights, the business-as-usual approach of interviewing the most knowledgeable household member(s) on adult household members' ownership of and rights to assets leads to (i) higher rates of exclusive reported and economic ownership of agricultural land among men, and (ii) lower rates of joint reported and economic ownership among women. Further, substantial agreement exists on agricultural landowners and rights holders, as reported by the privately-interviewed spouses. When discrepancies emerge, proxies for greater household status for women are positively associated with the scenarios where women attribute at least some land ownership to themselves

• Introduction
• Field consecrations in Leviticus
• The sacred reserve of Yahweh in Ezekiel's temple vision
• Hellenistic rulers, Jewish temples, and sacred land
• Field consecrations in the Late Second Temple Period
• Herem property and landholding by priests in the Late Second Temple period
• An allusion to a sacred tree in Paul's Letter to the Romans
• Summary and conclusions

This exploration of the Judean priesthood's role in agricultural cultivation demonstrates that the institutional reach of Second Temple Judaism (516 BCE-70 CE) went far beyond the confines of its houses of worship, while exposing an unfamiliar aspect of sacred place-making in the ancient Jewish experience. Temples of the ancient world regularly held assets in land, often naming a patron deity as landowner and affording the land sanctity protections. Such arrangements can provide essential background to the Hebrew Bible's assertion that God is the owner of the land of Israel. They can also shed light on references in early Jewish literature to the sacred landholdings of the priesthood or the temple.
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• Foreword
• The construction of an Indian right to property in land
• Thematic sketch of land laws in the country
• Land reform and its impact on the existing land tenure system
• Alteration of the land tenure system : laws relating to abolition of intermediaries and tenancy reform
• Law of land redistribution
• Land administration, records and titling
• Framework of the law of land acquisition and its inherent inequity : a combined working of land reform and acquisition law
• Displacement, dispossession, compensation and rehabilitation in matters of land reform and acquisitions
• Concluding remarks: Land relationships, landlessness and the law

This book is a critical study of the laws regulating landownership patterns. Land and land law are woven into the fabric of our society and are therefore integral to the substantive questions of equality and developmental ideologies of the state. This volume uncovers the socio-economic realities that surround land and approaches the law from the standpoint of the marginalized, landless and the dispossessed. This book: Undertakes an extensive survey of existing legislations, both at the union and state level through a range of analytical tables; Discusses the issues of land reform; abolition of intermediaries and tenancy reform; need for redistribution; ceilings on agricultural holdings; law of land acquisition; legal construction of public purpose and displacement, dispossession, compensation, and rehabilitation to construct a case for redistribution; Inquires into the phenomenon of landlessness that widely prevails in India today and lays bare its causes. An invaluable resource, this volume will be an essential read for all students and researchers of law, political studies, sociology, political economy, exclusion studies, development studies, and Asian studies.
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"Biography of Marie Mason Potts, a Mountain Maidu woman, from her formative years in off-reservation boarding schools, through marriage and motherhood, and into the spheres of Native American politics and cultural revitalization."-- Provided by publisher.

• pt.
• 1. Background
• pt.
• 2. Nature of native title
• pt.
• 3. Extinguishment and validation
• pt.
• 4. Future dealings
• pt.
• 5. Right to negotiate, agreements and settlements, and compensation
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• 6. Fiduciary obligations
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• 7. Resource developments and traditional pursuits
• pt.
• 8. Institutions and jurisdiction
• pt.
• 9. Reflections on native title.

"Native Title in Australia, 4th edition is a comprehensive and authoritative work that provides the reader with an understanding of both the current operation of native title in Australia and its historical and political background and development. It covers the nature of the concept, its proof, content and extinguishment, explains the validation of past grants and acts and the limited degree of protection from future acts, examines compensation for native title, and discusses the application of native title principles to resource development and traditional pursuits. It considers both the common law and the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth). The fourth edition of this highly regarded work includes discussion on: the consistent recognition of exclusive possession, use and enjoyment; the impact of the compensation case, Griffiths (HCA -- 2019); the increasing use of consent determinations and the Noongar Native Title Settlement; the implications of BHP (FFC -- 2018) undermining the Native Title Act future act process; and the greater adherence to principles of equality by the courts, especially as to extinguishment. This book provides an ideal basis for both undergraduate and postgraduate study of native title and related indigenous issues, and is a reliable and informative source for practitioners, researchers and government bodies requiring current information in this area."

• 1. Introduction-- Part I. Determinants of Contentious Land Narratives:
• 2. A theory of land and electoral violence-- 3 Historical origins of electoral violence--
• 4. Land inequality and land narratives: theory and evidence--
• 5. Narrative formation in the Central Rift Valley-- Part II. Determinants of Election Violence:
• 6. Contentious land narratives and the escalation of violence--
• 7. A puzzle of non-escalation? Contentious land narratives and stability on Kenya's coast-- Part III. Consequences of Electoral Violence:
• 8. Individual-level causes and effects of election violence--
• 9. Conclusion.
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Examining a key puzzle in the study of electoral violence, this study asks how elites organize violence and why ordinary citizens participate. While existing theories of electoral violence emphasize weak institutions, ethnic cleavages, and the strategic use of violence, few specify how the political incentives of elites interact with the interests of ordinary citizens. Providing a new theory of electoral violence, Kathleen F. Klaus analyzes violence as a process of mobilization that requires coordination between elites and ordinary citizens. Drawing on fifteen months of fieldwork in Kenya, including hundreds of interviews and an original survey, Political Violence in Kenya argues that where land shapes livelihood and identity, and tenure institutions are weak, land, and narratives around land, serve as a key device around which elites and citizens coordinate the use of violence. By examining local-level variation during Kenya's 2007-8 post-election violence, Klaus demonstrates how land struggles structure the dynamics of contentious politics and violence.
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• Introduction
• 1: Background: Property in Delhi, 1857-1911
• 2: A Malleable Cityscape
• 3: Landlords, Tenants, and Real Estate Firms
• 4: Representing Commodified Space: Maps, Auctions, Leases and, 'Narration' of Property
• 5: Intimacy in Four Registers: State, Space, and Capital in Delhi
• 6: Lineages of the Housing Question
• 7: Grave Investments: Abstraction and Sacral Spaces in 20th Century Colonial Delhi Conclusion
• Appendix I: The Database of Construction Bibliography.
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Possessing the City is a social history of the property market in late-colonial Delhi; a period of much turbulence and transformation. It argues that historians of South Asian cities must connect transformations in urban space with the economy of the city. Using new archival material, Anish Vanaik outlines the place of private property development in Delhi's economy from 1911 to 1947. Rather than large-scale state initiatives, like the Delhi Improvement Trust, it was profit-oriented, decentralised, and market-based initiatives of urban construction that created the Delhi cityscape. This volume also serves to chart the emerging relationship between the state and urban space in this period. Rather than a narrow focus on urban planning ideas, it argues that the relationship be thought of in a triangular fashion: the intermediation of the property market was crucial to emerging statecraft and urban form in this period. Possessing the City examines struggles and conflicts over the commodification of land, particularly disputes over rents and prices of urban property. The question of commodification can also, however, be discerned in struggles that were not ostensibly about economic issues: clashes over religious sites in the city. Through careful attention to the historical interrelationships between state, space, and the economy in Delhi, this volume offers a novel intervention in the history of late-colonial Delhi.
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• Introduction
• 1: Background: Property in Delhi, 1857-1911
• 2: A Malleable Cityscape
• 3: Landlords, Tenants, and Real Estate Firms
• 4: Representing Commodified Space: Maps, Auctions, Leases and, 'Narration' of Property
• 5: Intimacy in Four Registers: State, Space, and Capital in Delhi
• 6: Lineages of the Housing Question
• 7: Grave Investments: Abstraction and Sacral Spaces in 20th Century Colonial Delhi Conclusion
• Appendix I: The Database of Construction Bibliography.
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Possessing the City is a social history of the property market in late-colonial Delhi; a period of much turbulence and transformation. It argues that historians of South Asian cities must connect transformations in urban space with the economy of the city. Using new archival material, Anish Vanaik outlines the place of private property development in Delhi's economy from 1911 to 1947. Rather than large-scale state initiatives, like the Delhi Improvement Trust, it was profit-oriented, decentralised, and market-based initiatives of urban construction that created the Delhi cityscape. This volume also serves to chart the emerging relationship between the state and urban space in this period. Rather than a narrow focus on urban planning ideas, it argues that the relationship be thought of in a triangular fashion: the intermediation of the property market was crucial to emerging statecraft and urban form in this period. Possessing the City examines struggles and conflicts over the commodification of land, particularly disputes over rents and prices of urban property. The question of commodification can also, however, be discerned in struggles that were not ostensibly about economic issues: clashes over religious sites in the city. Through careful attention to the historical interrelationships between state, space, and the economy in Delhi, this volume offers a novel intervention in the history of late-colonial Delhi.
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• Volume one:
• Chapter 1: Land law in the legal system
• Chapter 2: The doctrine of tenure
• Chapter 3: Estates in land
• Chapter 4: Equity and equitable estates and interests
• Chapter 5: Future interests
• Chapter 6: The extent of the landholder's rights
• Chapter 7: Title to land
• Chapter 8: The land transfer system
• Chapter 9: Title by registration
• Chapter 10: Caveats
• Volume two:
• Chapter 11: Leasehold estates
• Chapter 12: Residential tenancies
• Chapter 13: Concurrent interests in land
• Chapter 14: Unit titles and cross-leases
• Chapter 15: Land as security: mortgages and other charges
• Chapter 16: Easements and profits
• Chapter 17: Covenants affecting freehold land
• Chapter 18: Licences
• Chapter 19: Capacity to own and to deal with land.

"Principles of Land Law in New Zealand is an abridged, one book version of the highly regarded property resource, Hinde, McMorland & Sim Land Law in New Zealand. Maintaining the reputation of previous editions, Principles of land law in New Zealand offers students and practitioners authoritative commentary on the fundamentals of land law. Since the last edition, titled Principles of Real Property Law, the authors have incorporated significant legislative and case law updates in all chapters, with particular focus on the adaptation of the text throughout to incorporate the Land Transfer Act 2017"--Back cover.

• Introduction.- Previous scholarship, methodology and the concept of development.- Xinjiang Economic Development.- Social development in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.- Walking in Two Worlds: Kashgar and Shihezi.- Land use and acquisition dynamics in Kashgar: power struggles and social change in a contemporary oasis.- Uyghurs vs Uyghurs. Fragmented identities in contemporary Xinjiang.- Conclusions - The CCP and a "bridge society" in XUAR: ethnicity as a tool for social engineering and stratification.
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In an unprecedented exploration of space and power in rural Xinjiang, a Chinese region home to the Muslim population of the Uyghurs, this book adopts a grounded theory approach and a trans-ethnic perspective into the complex and sensitive topic of land issues and agricultural land evictions in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. By exposing the dynamics of land acquisition and power building in the politically contested space of the region, the author shows how state owned land in a key commercial and cultural hub on the new Silk Road became a commodity, in a context of violent human interactions driven by power. Relying on previously undisclosed material and on a unique field research among farmers and local authorities, the author retraces the steps of Uyghur peasant workers, entangled in a suspended situation between abandoned rural villages, migration and urban alienation, in a book which explores agency in violent processes of social change, and adds concepts and insights to the current knowledge of how we become modern citizens. The microcosm of Kashgar, an oasis-city in Xinjiang, acts as a mirror reflecting socio political dynamics framing people's identity. Shedding light on one of the most inaccessible region in China, this book is a key read for academics and a broader public willing to get a clearer view of one of the sourest power struggle in the most contested region within the next superpower.
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