Places of Possibility

Property, Nature and Community Land Ownership

A. Fiona D. MacKenzie (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2012
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-4051-9171-5 (ISBN)

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Places of Possibility reveals how community land ownership can lead to more socially just and sustainable possibilities than the privatization espoused by neoliberalism. Drawing on comprehensive qualitative research in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, environmental geography specialist A. Fiona D.

Through original research conducted in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, Places of Possibility shows how community land ownership can open up the political, social, environmental, and economic terrain to more socially just and sustainable possibilities than private ownership.

Reveals how community land ownership is more just and sustainable than private ownership
Features original theoretical insights into ideas of property and nature that disrupt the process of neoliberalisation
Based on original research conducted by the author in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland

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).

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.12.2012
Reihe/Serie	Antipode Book Series
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	358 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	1-4051-9171-6 / 1405191716
ISBN-13	978-1-4051-9171-5 / 9781405191715
Zustand	Neuware