
Property Rights from Below
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As we enter an era of resource scarcity and as competition for land and associated natural resources increases, purchasing power cannot become the sole criterion for land allocation; and the law of supply and demand in increasingly financialized markets cannot become the sole metric through which the value of land is determined. Using a range of examples from around the world, Property Rights from Below demonstrates that alternatives to this model often emerge from social innovations supported by local communities and that there is an urgent need for a broader political imagination when it comes to land governance.
This innovative cross-disciplinary perspective on the pressing problems surrounding global property rights will be of interest to academics, students and professionals with an interest in property law, development economics and land governance.
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Balakrishnan Rajagopal is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, where he is the head of the International Development Group at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the founding director of the Program on Human Rights and Justice and the Displacement Research and Action Network. He is an active member and one of the founders of the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) network of scholars.
Content
Olivier De Schutter and Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Part I: The Global Commodification of Land and Competition for Resources
2. When Primitive Accumulation Inhabits Advanced Systems
Saskia Sassen
3. Land Grab Governance and the Crisis of Market Rule
Philip McMichael
4. From transgression to normative innovation: Land conflict resolution in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
An Ansoms, with Emery Mudinga, Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka, Giuseppe Davide Cioffo and Klara Claessens
Part II: Social Mobilization and the Counter-Movement
5. Forging a Single Proletariat
J. Phillip Thompson
6. Urban Squatters
Sonia Katyal and Eduardo Penalver
7. Land and territory: struggles for land and territorial rights in Brazil
Sergio Sauer and Luis Felipe Perdigao de Castro
8. The Right to Land and Territory: New Human Right and Collective Action Frame
Priscilla Claeys
Part III: Shaping Alternatives: from Commodification to Rebuilding the Commons
9. Facilitating the Commons Inside Out
Hanoch Dagan and Tsilly Dagan
10. Urban Commons, Property, and the Right to the City
Sheila R. Foster
11. When Land is Inalienable. Territorial transformations and peasants' property rights in Mexico
Antonio Azuela
12. Conclusion: The Revival of the "Commons" and the Redeifinition of Property Rights
Olivier De Schutter and Balakrishnan Rajagopal
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