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RESEARCH IN POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY VOLUME 26

THE POLITICS OF LAND

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TIM BARTLEY

Washington University in St Louis, USA

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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About the Authors

David Balgley is an MA Student in the Arab Studies program at Georgetown University, USA. He was a 2017–2018 Fulbright US Student Researcher in Morocco, where he conducted research on stakeholder narratives surrounding privatization of irrigated collective land. David has been doing research in Morocco since 2014, much of which has focused on land ownership, shifting rural social structures, and tenure policies. His research interests include agrarian political economy, rural development, and customary tenure systems, with a regional focus on North Africa and the Middle East.

Tim Bartley is Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. He is the author of Rules without Rights: Land, Labor, and Private Authority in the Global Economy (OUP, 2018), which examines sustainability and labor standards in Indonesia and China, as well as a recent piece on “Transnational Corporations and Global Governance” in the Annual Review of Sociology. His research focuses largely on transnational governance, regulation, organizations, and social movements. It has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Socio-Economic Review, Social Forces, Social Problems, and other journals. His first book, Looking behind the Label: Global Industries and the Conscientious Consumer (Indiana University Press, 2015), examined consumer behavior and the practical influence of standards for sustainable and/or fair production of apparel, electronics, food, and forest products.

Amanda Buday is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Fort Hays State University, USA. Her work on the politics of energy development in rural communities appears in Socius, Social Currents, and Sociological Perspectives. Her current areas of work include attitudes about wind energy development in Kansas and municipal water conservation.

Henning Deters is Assistant Professor at the University of Vienna’s Institute for European Integration Research (EIF), Austria. His research interests include multi-veto constellations and judicial politics in the EU. Substantively, he focuses on environment and single market policy. His new book The EU’s Green Dynamism: Deadlock and Change in Energy and Environmental Policy has just been published with ECPR Press/Rowman & Littlefield International (2018).

Marie Gagné is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, Canada, specializing in comparative politics and development studies. Her dissertation examines the factors influencing external investors’ capacity to gain and maintain control over large-scale land concessions. She previously carried out a comprehensive study on the cooperative movement in Senegal financed by the former Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). This research experience was fundamental in stimulating her interest in African politics and questions of development. Prior to her stay in Senegal, Marie earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in sociology from Laval University in Quebec City, Canada.

In Hyee Hwang is currently a Researcher at the Center for International Studies at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. Her dissertation at the University of Chicago was on how the uneven welfare development in China could be explained by perceptions of threat and authoritarian survival. Her areas of specialization are in welfare state development, authoritarian redistribution, and East Asian politics. This research has been supported by the Bienen Research Fund, the University of Chicago Beijing Center, and the Future-Leading Research Initiative at Yonsei University.

Isaac William Martin is the author of The Permanent Tax Revolt (Stanford, 2008) and Rich People’s Movements (Oxford, 2013), the co-author of Foreclosed America (Stanford, 2015), and a co-editor of The New Fiscal Sociology (Cambridge, 2009) and the New Handbook in Political Sociology (Cambridge, forthcoming). A former Chair of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Political Sociology, he is Professor of Sociology at the University of California – San Diego, USA, where he is also affiliated with the program in Urban Studies and Planning.

Gabriel Nelson completed his PhD in Sociology at University of California – Los Angeles, USA, in 2014. His research interests include inequality, Latin America, political sociology, and health disparities. After earning his PhD, he worked for an education non-profit in the South Bronx helping students with undocumented citizenship status to return to college and to find scholarships. He has now returned to teaching sociology in the City University of New York, USA at Lehman College and at Hunter College.

Simeon J. Newman is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan, USA. He specializes in political and comparative-historical sociology, social theory, and the philosophy of the social sciences. His dissertation focuses on the origins and dynamics of distinct regimes of urban clientelism in twentieth-century Lima, Peru, Mexico City, and Caracas, Venezuela. Other work, published and in progress, engages politics and political economy in contemporary Venezuela, social theories of power and temporality, and the problem of rational explanation in historicist sociological research. His research has been supported, in part, by the Social Science Research Council and the National Science Foundation.

Joshua Sbicca is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Colorado State University, USA. He studies urban food systems, food movement organizing, the development of social movement networks, and the tensions inherent in trying to create food system change amid the urban pressures of mass incarceration, gentrification, racial stratification, and neoliberalization. He is the author of Food Justice Now! Deepening the Roots of Social Struggle (University of Minnesota Press, 2018).

Acknowledgments

First, let me thank Barbara Wejnert, the general series editor of Research in Political Sociology, for allowing me to edit this volume. I hope that it continues the tradition of publishing innovative work in this series. I also thank Philippa Grand and Rachel Ward at Emerald for their work on getting the volume into print.

Second, I owe a huge debt of gratitude to the scholars who reviewed the chapters that were submitted for this volume. The chapters went through a rigorous, double-blind review process, and the reviewers contributed insightful and constructive reviews in a timely fashion. I hope they recognize the traces of their insights in the contents of this volume. I am happy to acknowledge them here:

• Maria Akchurin, Tulane University

• Christopher Todd Beer, Lake Forest College

• Eric Bjorklund, University of Arizona

• Julia Chuang, Boston College

• Eduardo Dargent, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

• Carlos De La Torre, University of Kentucky

• Andrew Gunnoe, Maryville College

• Maricarmen Hernandez, University of Texas

• Phillip Hough, Florida Atlantic University

• Brent Z. Kaup, College of William and Mary

• Miles Kenney-Lazar, National University of Singapore

• Michael Levien, Johns Hopkins University

• Tammy L. Lewis, CUNY/Brooklyn College

• Damon Mayrl, Colby College

• Adam Mayer, Colorado State University

• Ethan Michelson, Indiana University

• Rourke O’Brien, University of Wisconsin

• Xuefei Ren, Michigan State University

• Stefan Renckens, University of Toronto

• Karen Rignall, University of Kentucky

• John N. Robinson III, Washington University in St Louis

• Philip Schleifer, University of Amsterdam

• Eric Schoon, The Ohio State University

• Thomas Stubbs, Royal Holloway, University of London

• Nikolas Summers, Florida Atlantic University