This volume suggests that the recent rise in income inequality was caused to a considerable extent by a policy-driven worsening in factorial income distribution, wage spread, and spatial inequality. In this regard, the volume discusses the distributive impact of reforms in trade…
Conference papers on historical aspects of the development of cash crop commercial farming in selected states of India - considers land ownership, land markets, tenancy relations and rural area labour markets during colonialism; analyses the effects of agricultural commercialisa…
The concept of 'hybridity' is often still poorly theorized and problematically applied by peace and development scholars and researchers of resource governance. This book turns to a particular ethnographic reading of Michel Foucault's Governmentality and investigates its usefuln…
Documents the three and a half year sovereignty case in the British Columbia Supreme Court, Canada, brought by the Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en people; no Australian Aboriginal content.
"The American effort began with Thomas Jefferson's authorization of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, which set out in 1803 to lay claim to the West. Lewis and Clark had several charges, among them the discovery of a Northwest Passage - a land route across the continent - in order t…
In this dissertation, I analyze the processes of implementation and application of Collective Titling as a policy that characterized rural Afro Colombian communities’ spaces and modified their property regimes, while being equally shaped by the political and economic contexts wh…
This thesis project details the critical role Gullah Geechee voice plays in the interpretation and preservation of Gullah Geechee culture. The thesis essay reveals that the voices of Gullah Geechee community members are often overshadowed by the voices of noncommunity members. T…
Land is one of the world's most emotionally resonant resources, and control over it is fundamental to almost all human activity. From the local level to the global, we are often in conflict over the ground beneath our feet. But because human relationships to land are so comple…
This work analyses the impact of landownership on the physical development and other factors affecting settlements in south-west Cheshire between 1750 and 2000, seeking to demonstrate the hypothesis that landownership was the overriding influence on settlement growth or decline.…
This dissertation explores the interconnection between land ownership inequality and functioning of rural factor markets in Turkey. It investigates the effectiveness and efficiency of land and labor markets in generating and distributing economic opportunities within agriculture…