Land Tenure Center Newsletter
Number 79, Spring 2000, p. 10
Kenyan squatters, Moscow street vendors, Vermont land trusts, and Illinois farmers have several common concerns when it comes to landownership. All must balance individual and collective interests at a time of intense privatization. All deal with an ambiguous and often misleading line between private and public ownership. All contend with changing social values that shape the meaning of ownership.
These intriguing themes are captured in Property and Values, a new release by Island Press, which enjoyed "value added" from the second Land Tenure Center conference on "Who Owns America?" in 1998. Chapters from the book were presented at the conference and prompted much debate.
Charles Geisler is Professor of Rural Sociology at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.
Gail Daneker is a human rights and environmental activist currently living in St. Paul, MN.
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