{"product_id":"class-meets-land-the-embodied-history-of-land-financialization-hardcover","title":"Class Meets Land: The Embodied History of Land Financialization - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaria Kaika\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLuca Ruggiero\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eClass Meets Land\u003c\/i\u003e reveals something seemingly counterintuitive: that nineteenth-century class struggles over land are deeply implicated in the transition to twenty-first-century financial capitalism. Challenging our understanding of land financialization as a recent phenomenon propelled by high finance, Maria Kaika and Luca Ruggiero foreground 150 years of class struggle over land as a catalyst for assembling the global financial constellation. Narrating the close-knit histories of industrial land, industrial elites, and the working class, the authors offer a novel understanding of land financialization as a \"lived\" process: the outcome of a relentless, socially embodied historical unfolding, in which shifts in land's material, economic, and symbolic roles impact both local everyday lives and global capital flows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePutting industrial workers front and center in urban political ecology, this book opens up exciting new pathways for understanding land financialization from a historical materialist perspective.--Stefania Barca, author of \u003ci\u003eWorkers of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"In this wonderful book, Maria Kaika and Luca Ruggiero show an unusual capacity to integrate localized historical research with powerful theoretical insights about capitalism, land financialization, and circuits of capital. Before the eureka moment when industrial land was reinvented as an asset, trouble had been brewing for decades. The authors bring to light the symbolic and social dimensions of the destruction\/creation process, the long-term lived experience of land financialization, where land use and assetization have been transformative for the locality.\"--Patrick Le Gal?s, CNRS Research Professor, Sciences Po Urban School and Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Land is nothing without the labor and laborers who have produced it, live in it, give it meaning, and create its value. As\u003ci\u003e Class Meets Land\u003c\/i\u003e makes vibrantly clear, what we take to be entirely deracinated--land as a financial asset--is instead the very embodiment of a long history of class struggle. Required reading for anyone who wants to really know what financialization is all about.\"--Don Mitchell, author of \u003ci\u003eMean Streets: Homelessness, Public Space, and the Limits of Capital\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaria Kaika\u003c\/b\u003e is an urban geographer, planner, and architect. She is Director of the Centre for Urban Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her books include\u003ci\u003e Turning Up the Heat: Urban Political Ecology for a Climate Emergency\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Political Ecology of Austerity\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn the Nature of Cities\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCity of Flows.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLuca Ruggiero \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Economic and Political Geography in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Catania, Italy. His books include\u003ci\u003e Tardo industrialismo\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eEnergia, ambiente e nuovi immaginari di sviluppo in Sicilia\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLa dipendenza energetica dell'Unione Europea: Strategie geopolitiche e scenari innovativi, Temi di geografia economica, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTurismo e competitività urbana\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 218\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 05, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47402124017842,"sku":"9780520410077","price":171.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/c3885578eb86813b54d610f0e58ddd94_13bbef0a-74de-4e0a-ade3-b9b5ae6c84a1.webp?v=1778108748","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/class-meets-land-the-embodied-history-of-land-financialization-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}