Places of Possibility (eBook)

Property, Nature and Community Land Ownership

A. Fiona D. MacKenzie (Autor)

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2012
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-27876-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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

Autor

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).

Inhalt

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

Rezensionen

"As Fiona Mackenzie demonstrates in her important new
book, the Highlands and Hebrides have become, in recent years, the
center of a sustained effort to construct an alternative,
place-based and more generous politics to that of a neoliberal
imaginary ... Mackenzie has written a book that is thrilling in
its optimism and hopefulness. She convincingly explains in
compelling detail the hopeful possibilities of the re-commoning in
the Hebrides and Highlands. This is rarely the stuff of academic
study but is at the heart of Places of
Possibility's profound ambitions and most important
contribution: anticipating 'more socially, environmentally
and economically generous postneoliberalisms'."
(Antipode, 1 September 2013)

"In this splendid book Fiona Mackenzie provides an excellent
analysis of the principles and practice of community
land-ownership, an idea which is transforming the landscape of the
Scottish highlands. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the Hebrides
and a very wide range of interdisciplinary references she adds
depth and clarity to our understanding of this profound shift in
Scottish society."

--Ewen A. Cameron, Professor of History, University of
Edinburgh

Because Fiona Mackenzie has spent a lot of time in the area, she
has got to grips with the Highlands and Islands experience of
community ownership in a way that no other academic author has
done. Mackenzie has much to say that is novel, perceptive and
important, while her background and experience is such as to enable
her to bring a range of theoretical perspectives to bear on her
subject matter.

--James Hunter, Emeritus Professor of History,
University of the Highlands and Islands

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.11.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Antipode Book Series
• Reihe/Serie: Antipode Book Series
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: antipode • economic geography • Environmental Geography • Geographie • Geographie / Planung • Geography • Geography - Planning • human geography • Neoliberalisation • Outer Hebrides, Scotland • Political Geography • Politische Geographie • private ownership • Umweltgeographie • Wirtschaftsgeographie
• ISBN-10: 1-118-27876-3 / 1118278763
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-27876-5 / 9781118278765