Land Fictions: The Commodification of Land in City and Country

Land Fictions
	Contents
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Land Fictions and the Politics of Commodification in City and Country
	1. Fictitious but Not Utopian: Land Commodification and Dispossession in Rural India
	2. Fictions of Surplus: Commodifying Public Land in Canada and the United Kingdom
	3. Fictions of Safety: Defensive Storylines in Global Property Investment
	4. Ground Fictions: Soil, Property, and Markets in the Colombian Conflict
	5. Narratives of Waste: The Fictions and Frictions of Land Commodification in Liberalizing India
	6. Rental Fictions: Speculating in Rent-Regulated Housing in New York City
	7. The Fiction of Formalization: Titles, Concessions, and the Politics of Landownership in Cambodia
	8. Regularization and the Fictions of Planning “Unauthorized Delhi”
	9. The Sanctuary of the Collective: Contesting the Fictions of State-Led Land Commodification in Peri-Urban Guangzhou
	10. Rights Gone Wrong on the City’s Edge: The Fictions and Fetishes of Land Documents in Ho Chi Minh City
	11. Where Materiality Meets Subjectivity: Locating the Political in the Contested Fiction of Urban Land in Camden, New Jersey
	12. The State of Land Grabs: Regulatory Fictions in Ghana’s “Small-Scale” Gold Mining Sector
	Afterword: Land Fictions in the Longue Durée
	Notes
	References
	Contributors
	Index