Charles Geisler
Charles Geisler has a sustained interest in changing property relations in conditions of exception/emergency/crisis. He specializes in topics of homeland securitization and property rights; the militarization of land use planning; possession and dispossession as A by-product of the global war on terror; violent conservation in and around parks and protected areas; development-induced displacement and property resititution; terra nullius_ narratives in making/breaking development spaces; the production of stateless places; and land reform. He is a professor in Development Sociology at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York/USA. Contact: ccg2@cornell.edu
