Mackenzie Places of Possibility

Property, Nature and Community Land Ownership
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-27875-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Antipode Book Series

Through original research conducted in the Outer Hebrides,Scotland, Places of Possibility shows how community landownership can open up the political, social, environmental, andeconomic terrain to more socially just and sustainablepossibilities than private ownership.
* Reveals how community land ownership is more just andsustainable than private ownership
* Features original theoretical insights into ideas of propertyand nature that disrupt the process of neoliberalisation
* Based on original research conducted by the author in the OuterHebrides, Scotland

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mackenzie, A. Fiona D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps viii
List of Photographs ix
List of Tables x
Acknowledgements xi
1 Placing Possibility 1
2 Working Property 34
3 Working Nature 79
4 Working the Wind 127
5 Working Places 175
6 Conclusion - Working Possibilities 214
References 227
Index 248

Über Autor(innen)

A. Fiona D. Mackenzie is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and Honorary Professor, University of the Highlands and Islands. Professor Mackenzie has carried out in-depth qualitative research on the Isle of Harris, the Outer Hebrides, and is the author of Land, Ecology and Resistance in Kenya, 1880-1952 (1998).