Week 12: Resource access: Dispossession and Rights

Class agenda

• Grant discussion: Draft Group A
• Lectures
• Reading discussion

Reading

• Ribot, J.C. and Peluso, N.L., 2003. A theory of access. Rural sociology, 68(2), pp.153-181.
• Acheson, J.M., 2015. Private land and common oceans: analysis of the development of property regimes. Current Anthropology, 56(1), pp.28-55.
• Hall, D., Hirsch, P. and Li, T.M., 2011. Introduction to powers of exclusion: land dilemmas in Southeast Asia. National University of Singapore Press and University of Hawaii Press.
• Peluso, N.L. and Ribot, J., 2020. Postscript: A theory of access revisited. Society & Natural Resources, 33(2), pp.300-306.
• Sikor, T. and Lund, C., 2009. Access and property: a question of power and authority. Development and change, 40(1), pp.1-22.

Media

• BBC Trending: The new fight for land rights
• The Sporkful: (guest episode Copper and Heat) Is Protecting Abalone Also Destroying A Native Tradition?

Recommended

• Li, Tania Murray. “Indigeneity, capitalism, and the management of dispossession.” Current anthropology 51, no. 3 (2010): 385-414.

Assignments due for class discussion

• Draft Group A