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...

"As formerly community-owned land and natural resources are privatized and titling schemes proliferate, Property Rights from Below questions the trend towards treating land as a commodity and explores alternatives to the Western model."

Land, climate & human are the major critical actors of world history & development. “Buy land, they're not making it anymore", said Mark Twain. Land is a precious resource, the bedstead in which seeds of development are sown. Every activity on the earth requires land as founding support. This...