Class Meets Land: The Embodied History of Land Financialization

Class Meets Land 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.

Author: Maria Kaika, Luca Ruggiero
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 11/05/2024
Series: Ijurr Studies in Urban and Social Change
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780520410084