Land fictions : the commodification of land in city and country

Introduction : Land Fictions and the Politics of Commodification in City and Country / D. Asher Ghertner and Robert W. Lake -- Fictitious but not Utopian : Land Commodification and Dispossession in Rural India / Michael Levien -- Fictions of Surplus : Commodifying Public Land in Canada and the United Kingdom / Brett Christophers and Heather Whiteside -- Fictions of Safety : Defensive Storylines in Global Property Investment / Sarah Knuth -- Ground Fictions : Soil, Property, and Markets in the Colombian Conflict / Meghan L. Morris -- Narratives of Waste : The Fictions and Frictions of Land Commodification in Liberalizing India / Sai Balakrishnan -- Rental Fictions : Speculating in Rent-Regulated Housing in New York City / Benjamin F. Teresa -- The Fiction of Formalization : Titles, Concessions, and the Politics of Landownership in Cambodia Michael L. Dwyer -- Regularization and the Fictions of Planning "Unauthorized Delhi" / D. Asher Ghertner -- The Sanctuary of the Collective : Contesting the Fictions of State-Led Land Commodification in Peri-Urban Guangzhou / Mi Shih -- Rights Gone Wrong on the City's Edge : The Fictions and Fetishes of Land Documents in Ho Chi Minh City / Erik Harms -- Where Materiality Meets Subjectivity : Locating the Political in the Contested Fiction of Urban Land in Camden, New Jersey / Robert W. Lake -- The State of Land Grabs : Regulatory Fictions in Ghana's "Small-Scale" Gold Mining Sector / Heidi Hausermann and David Ferring -- Afterword : Land Fictions in the Longue Durée / Michael J. Watts.