A. Fiona D. Mackenzie

Places of Possibility (eBook, ePUB)

Property, Nature and Community Land Ownership

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118278758
• Artikelnr.: 37337870

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps viii
List of Photographs ix
List of Tables x
Acknowledgements xi
1 Placing Possibility 1
2 Working Property 34
3 Working Nature 79
4 Working the Wind 127
5 Working Places 175
6 Conclusion - Working Possibilities 214
References 227
Index 248

Rezensionen

"This is rarely the stuff of academic study but is at theheart of Places of Possibility's profound ambitions and mostimportant contribution: anticipating "more socially,environmentally and economically generous'postneoliberalisms." (Antipode, 1 August2013)"In this splendid book Fiona Mackenzie provides an excellentanalysis of the principles and practice of communityland-ownership, an idea which is transforming the landscape of theScottish highlands. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the Hebridesand a very wide range of interdisciplinary references she addsdepth and clarity to our understanding of this profound shift inScottish society."
--Ewen A. Cameron, Professor of History, University ofEdinburgh

Because Fiona Mackenzie has spent a lot of time in the area, shehas got to grips with the Highlands and Islands experience ofcommunity ownership in a way that no other academic author hasdone. Mackenzie has much to say that is novel, perceptive andimportant, while her background and experience is such as to enableher to bring a range of theoretical perspectives to bear on hersubject matter.
--James Hunter, Emeritus Professor of History,University of the Highlands and Islands