Notable as a unique and significant Chinese Communist Party-led land reform campaign, land reform in Beijing suburbs in 1949 not only changed everyday life in suburban Beijing but also profoundly shaped political culture in the early years of the People’s Republic of China. Char…
On January 31, 2007, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced a new land redistribution program that was part of the implementation of a land reform policy called Reforma Agraria. The program was to be launched in conjunction with a land registration program as pa…
The chapters in this dissertation provide a way of tracing out a history of sorts; of how households and people coped with negative shocks in the past: through cooperative land tenure arrangements and collectives, and now: through technological platforms that follow the “economi…
This dissertation research examines the discourses of customary land rights and land reform in response to the changing political landscape in Indonesia since 1998. It argues that part of the reason for the use of the discourses on customary land rights and land reform in the co…
Progressive Arab nationalism was built upon a concept of emancipation. Emancipating states from imperialism, peasants from feudalism and creating truly independent and sovereign states. From 1952 to 1958, Arab nationalists aimed to free themselves from Western imperialism create…
The agrarian structure of Iran is examined, in the light of theories of peasant revolution and a comparative historical survey of four major agrarian structures (Russia, China, Japan, and India), to see how it influenced and was affected by the adaptive changes in modern times, …