Hall - Land

Land

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Land

DEREK HALL

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Copyright Derek Hall 2013

The right of Derek Hall to be identified as Author of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

First published in 2013 by Polity Press

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My thinking about land has been deeply shaped by two highly enjoyable experiences. One was my participation in ChATSEA (Challenges of the Agrarian Transition in Southeast Asia), a research project funded by Canadas Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and coordinated by Rodolphe De Koninck. It was through ChATSEA that I had the opportunity to co-author Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia with Philip Hirsch and Tania Murray Li, and this book has been strongly influenced by what I learned about land from them. The other was the year I spent as an S. V. Ciriacy-Wantrup Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. My participation in Land Lab and my conversations with, especially, Mike Dwyer, Louise Fortmann, Alice Kelly, Christian Lund, Nancy Peluso, Noer Fauzi Rachman, Kevin Woods and Megan Ybarra helped me greatly in the initial formulation of the framework of this book.

The first draft of this manuscript was the subject of a January 2012 book workshop that was generously funded by the Balsillie School of International Affairs. I would like to thank Lauren Judge for her organizational work on the workshop, and the participants whose detailed and thoughtful feedback made this a much better book: Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Kim Burnett, Taarini Chopra, Jennifer Clapp, Will Coleman, Michael Eilenberg, Ariane Goetz, Eric Helleiner, Tania Murray Li, Sarah Martin, Marie-Jose Massicotte and Yasmine Shamsie. I also received invaluable comments and advice from Jennifer Beck, June Hall, Elizabeth Havice, Michael Levien, Dann Naseemullah, Matthew Rudolph, Vasundhara Sirnate, John Wadland, Wendy Wolford and an anonymous reviewer, and Gail Ferguson did a wonderful job of copy editing. Louise Knight and David Winters at Polity were terrifically supportive and did an enormous amount to make the writing and publishing process as smooth as possible. Lisa Stadelmeyer provided excellent research assistance in the early stages of the project. I am extremely grateful for all of this help, but I alone am responsible for any errors in the final product. Anne-Marie Colpron and Alicia Sliwinski gave me the bottle of whisky mentioned in chapter 7.