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The Politics of Possession: Property, Authority, and Access to Natural Resources
Thomas Sikor
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Description for The Politics of Possession: Property, Authority, and Access to Natural Resources
Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Sikor, Thomas; Lund, Christian. Series: Development and Change Special Issues. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: JPVH3; RNF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 342.
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.
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 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 ... Read more
- Contributors explore from a wide empirical compass of original research spanning Latin America, Africa, South-East Asia, and Eastern Europe
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Development and Change Special Issues
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9781405196567
SKU
V9781405196567
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Ref
99-1
About Thomas Sikor
Thomas Sikor is Senior Lecturer in the School of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. His research focuses on rural property and resource governance, with a geographical emphasis on post-socialist countries. He has authored more than 30 journal articles, is the editor of Public and Private in Natural Resource Governance (2008) and has guest-edited special issues of ... Read more
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