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Places of Possibility: Property, Nature and Community Land Ownership
A. Fiona D. Mackenzie
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Description for Places of Possibility: Property, Nature and Community Land Ownership
Paperback. Places of Possibility reveals how community land ownership can lead to more socially just and sustainable possibilities than the privatization espoused by neoliberalism. Drawing on comprehensive qualitative research in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, environmental geography specialist A. Fiona D. Series: Antipode Book Series. Num Pages: 270 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: RG; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 228 x 14. Weight in Grams: 350.
Through original research conducted in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, Places of Possibility shows how community land ownership can open up the political, social, environmental, and economic terrain to more socially just and sustainable possibilities than private ownership.
Through original research conducted in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, Places of Possibility shows how community land ownership can open up the political, social, environmental, and economic terrain to more socially just and sustainable possibilities than private ownership.
- Reveals how community land ownership is more just and sustainable than private ownership
- Features original theoretical insights into ideas of property and nature that disrupt the process of neoliberalisation
- Based on original research conducted by the author in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
Series
Antipode Book Series
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405191715
SKU
V9781405191715
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Ref
99-50
About A. Fiona D. Mackenzie
A. Fiona D. Mackenzie is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and Honorary Professor, University of the Highlands and Islands. Professor Mackenzie has carried out in-depth qualitative research on the Isle of Harris, the Outer Hebrides, and is the author of Land, Ecology and Resistance in Kenya, 1880-1952 (1998).
Reviews for Places of Possibility: Property, Nature and Community Land Ownership
“As Fiona Mackenzie demonstrates in her important new book, the Highlands and Hebrides have become, in recent years, the center of a sustained effort to construct an alternative, place-based and more generous politics to that of a neoliberal imaginary … Mackenzie has written a book that is thrilling in its optimism and hopefulness. She convincingly explains in compelling detail the ... Read more