In India, the land was and still is a symbol of power and authority. It has been the most significant among the means of production in the agrarian economy. For the proper distribution and utilization of land, various land tenures were introduced. Landed relationships in regions…
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I examine how three European women used the people of the Middle East to construct their selves in response to the constraints of religion and gender in their societies. Harriet Martineau (Eastern Life: Present and Past, 1846) was a Unitarian, but embraced atheism. In the Middle…
This dissertation explores the transformation of property rights in Sabah, Malaysia from 1881 to present day. I untangle the complex ways in which property rights are transformed by closely analyzing the history of colonial codification of native customary law, the intricacies o…
Coal mining carries significant impacts for surrounding livelihood practices. Yet, in order to explain how specific impacts become grounded within a particular community, attention must be given to the complex assemblage of socio-political and economic forces operating at the lo…
This dissertation is a study of urban land in a colonial Nigerian city. It investigates the history and politics of urban land, land tenure, land use and access to land, and their intersections with the growth of urbanization in the late nineteenth and twentieth century eastern …
This dissertation has two parts. The first part uses an account of sequenced debates among late-nineteenth-century colonial administrators to account for the emergence and consolidation of individual preferences favoring (a) collective (as opposed to individualized) landed prope…
The purpose of this research was to evaluate forest-cover change in and around the protected areas of Peninsular Malaysia between 1992 and 1996. To accomplish this a historical review of deforestation and conservation measures in Peninsular Malaysia was undertaken. Different cha…
Land is required for human existence. Land also has a symbolic aspect that goes beyond its necessity for food production and living space. Drawing on models and methods used in cultural geography this study examines the key role played by the land of Israel in the book of Ezekie…
Much has been written in recent years about the role of landownership in British society and, particularly, in structuring the social relations of 'rural' areas. There has also been a growing interest in the way social processes are 'patterned' geographically and are themselves …
What is the connection between people and the landscape that surrounds them? How dochanges in that landscape affect social life? This study of a dual-sited village communityin southern Manggarai (eastern Indonesia) argues that places and pathways are cruciallyimplicated in the c…
This is an ethnographic study about land and belonging in an Indo-Fijian rural cane farming settlement in Fiji, where Indo-Fijians have lived and worked for generations, while recognising that the land belongs to indigenous Fijians. Indo-Fijians are mainly the descendants of Ind…
Historical and contemporary practices of rural land and forest regulation demonstrate a wide range of interactions among customary and state authorities. In East Timor's Oecusse enclave, autonomous local authorities have long sought to access and to control forest products, incl…
This dissertation examines the relation between rural conflict and aspects of agrarian relations on the one hand, and the changing forms of state regulation, on the other, in mid-nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. Its main goal is to show that the changes at the level of state a…
This is a study of the politics of land ownership and governance in British-ruled and late-Ottoman Palestine (1858-1948). Using a wide range of primary and secondary material in English, Arabic, Hebrew and Ottoman Turkish (housed in archives and libraries in Jerusalem, London, a…
This paper is a study of the prose and poetry of the Iranian author and political activist Muhammad Taqī Bahār (1886-1951) with the aim of shedding light on the part he played in shaping nationalist thought in early twentieth century Iran. His model of Iranian linguistic and lit…
This study focuses on the conflict that emerged in the 1930s and 1940s between the British colonial government officials and the African farmers in Vihiga, Western Kenya, over approaches to land management. The colonial state was more than convinced that unprecedented soil erosi…
Christian environmental ethics, and the philosophy of Deep, Ecology are assumed by many of their respective adherents to be incompatible, primarily because they reflect different anthropologies. Deep Ecology posits an "ecological self," whose foremost characteristic is nonanthro…
Recent trends in historical Jesus scholarship and Christian ethical discourse have paid increased attention to Jesus and his proclamation of the kingdom of God. In particular both fields have re-examined Jesus' kingdom proclamation in light of his first-century Jewish Palestinia…
The thesis examines the social and economic implications of large-scale agribusiness expansion in Indonesia by analyzing how this economic system, as it is envisioned and materialised, reshapes livelihood possibilities. Based on original interviews with oil palm plantation worke…