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…
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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…
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…
My dissertation thesis aims to illuminate how post-imperial Christian-Muslim oppositionality was discursively and practically constituted in a former Balkan dominion of the Ottoman Empire. I expose this process by analyzing the reshaping of individual land ownership during the p…
Land and Power: The Social Dynamics of Land Ownership in Iron Age Israel describes the system of land tenure of Iron Age Israel (ca. 1200–586 B.C.) in order to illuminate the impact of that system on society. This dissertation examines written documents from other parts of the A…
The present study addresses the fundamental question of how a legal idea of private immovable property emerged and developed in Northeastern Russia. In particular, this work focuses on the development of land ownership laws in the Russian principalities during the era of politic…