Property Rights from Below

Olivier De Schutter is Professor at the University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium, and at SciencesPo (Paris). He is also a member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. He was the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food between 2008 and 2014 and has been a visiting professor at Columbia University and at Berkeley University, USA.Balakrishnan Rajagopal is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, where he is the head of the International Development Group at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the founding director of the Program on Human Rights and Justice and the Displacement Research and Action Network. He is an active member and one of the founders of the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) network of scholars.

• 1. Property Rights From Below: An Introduction to the DebateOlivier De Schutter and Balakrishnan RajagopalPart I: The Global Commodification of Land and Competition for Resources2. When Primitive Accumulation Inhabits Advanced SystemsSaskia Sassen3. Land Grab Governance and the Crisis of Market RulePhilip McMichael4. From transgression to normative innovation: Land conflict resolution in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo An Ansoms, with Emery Mudinga, Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka, Giuseppe Davide Cioffo and Klara ClaessensPart II: Social Mobilization and the Counter-Movement5. Forging a Single ProletariatJ. Phillip Thompson6. Urban SquattersSonia Katyal and Eduardo Peñalver7. Land and territory: struggles for land and territorial rights in Brazil Sergio Sauer and Luís Felipe Perdigão de Castro8. The Right to Land and Territory: New Human Right and Collective Action FramePriscilla ClaeysPart III: Shaping Alternatives: from Commodification to Rebuilding the Commons9. Facilitating the Commons Inside OutHanoch Dagan and Tsilly Dagan10. Urban Commons, Property, and the Right to the CitySheila R. Foster11. When Land is Inalienable. Territorial transformations and peasants’ property rights in Mexico Antonio Azuela12. Conclusion: The Revival of the "Commons" and the Redeifinition of Property RightsOlivier De Schutter and Balakrishnan Rajagopal