...Contracting for Land Use Law ...

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... This chapter examines the US federal government’s acquisition of land for military purposes via eminent domain cases in the US district court, and via leases, licenses, and permits from the territorial government and private landowners. Legal regimes of eminent domain and land leasing employed...

... are using in cities across the country to make critical decisions about which neighborhoods to target for investment and disinvestment. If industrial labor defined Detroit’s economy and land-use planning decisions in the twentieth century, the Market Value Analysis illuminates the extent to which real...

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... This chapter explores new formations of authority, citizenship, and care that emerged to deal with breakdown in the city’s property system. It analyzes competing views for how de facto public lands should be distributed and used. As the city struggled to manage all the property to which it held...

... and suburbanization, this chapter uncovers how one of the world’s largest tax-foreclosure auctions functioned as a technology of wealth transfer. It traces its origins to a well-organized US property and states’ rights movement that aimed to privatize public land, discipline the poor, and preserve ruling elite...

... the land, plants and animals, and human bodies. This life force, ipane (grease), is central to ancestral spirit rituals. Conversion to Christianity has ended many of the rituals formerly used to placate ancestral spirits, which has led most Porgerans to worry about “the end of the land,” a landscape...

... Efforts to undermine Detroit turned on encouraging new land uses. This chapter explores how a diverse range of actors—from activists to planners, financiers, and foundations—began to herald postindustrial Detroit for its agrarian potential. It tells the story of financier John Hantz's...

... The second chapter, “Domestic Affects,” offers and extraction history of the cultural genre and jurisdictional framework of “the domestic.” The chapter argues that, across its many cultural and political uses, the domestic at its heart indexes a quality of colonial social relation—the attachment...

... and animals, and human bodies. This life force, ipane (grease), is central to ancestral spirit rituals. Conversion to Christianity has ended many of the rituals formerly used to placate ancestral spirits, which has led most Porgerans to worry about “the end of the land,” a landscape without the vital life...

... This chapter begins the exploration of indigenous ecological concepts and practices in Porgera. There is no word for nature or ecology in Porgera, so this chapter and the following two argue that any deep understanding of ecological ideas must necessarily incorporate ideas about land...

... This chapter highlights geology's association with a modern, civilized and, in the US, distinctly Anglo-American whiteness, which was held to be the apex of planetary development. It shows how geological fantasy worked in tandem with the reconstruction of New World lands as potentially...