Land Fictions

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<P><B><I>Land Fictions</I></B><B> explores the common storylines, narratives, and tales of social betterment that justify and enact land as commodity.</B> It interrogates global patterns of property formation, the dispossessions property markets enact, and the popular movements to halt the growing waves of evictions and land grabs.</P><P>This collection brings together original research on urban, rural, and peri-urban India; rapidly urbanizing China and Southeast Asia; resource expropriation in Africa and Latin America; and the neoliberal urban landscapes of North America and Europe. Through a variety of perspectives, <I>Land Fictions</I> finds resonances between local stories of land''s fictional powers and global visions of landed property''s imagined power to automatically create value and advance national development. </P><P>Editors D. Asher Ghertner and Robert W. Lake unpack the dynamics of land commodification across a broad range of political, spatial, and temporal settings, exp