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…
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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…
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…
The dissertation examines famine in Ethiopia as an issue in U.S.-Ethiopian relations from 1950 to 1991. It argues that to avoid restructuring Ethiopia's semi-feudal society, and to make military security the primary goal of its foreign relations, the Imperial Ethiopian Governmen…