Book description
Through original research conducted in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland,
Places of Possibility
shows how community land ownership can open up the political, social,
environmental, and economic terrain to more socially just and
sustainable possibilities than private ownership.
- Reveals how community land ownership is more just and sustainable
than private ownership
- Features original theoretical insights into ideas of property and
nature that disrupt the process of neoliberalisation
- Based on original research conducted by the author in the Outer
Hebrides, Scotland
A. Fiona D. Mackenzie is Professor Emeritus in the
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton
University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and Honorary Professor, University
of the Highlands and Islands. Professor Mackenzie has carried out
in-depth qualitative research on the Isle of Harris, the Outer
Hebrides, and is the author of Land, Ecology and Resistance in
Kenya, 1880-1952 (1998).
