In person icon The Politics of Land as Property: Ownership, Power and Inequality

Abstract

This panel examines historical and contemporary forms of land ownership and how these structure contemporary political economies via their influence on political power, social hierarchies and economic inequalities. Its aim is to bring together researchers investigating landownership structures in different national and regional contexts to share experiences, first results, as well as to identify cross-national comparative possibilities. A landownership structure is characterized by the distribution of land across landowner types (public/private, individuals/companies, etc.), as well as the distribution of land within each owner class, that is, the degree to which land is concentrated among a small number of landowners. The panel covers the historical and political roots of contemporary land ownership structures, the comparative politics of the influence of landowners on social and economic outcomes (including the production of housing), as well the politics of land data management.

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