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Converging Dialogues

#403 - Land Power: A Dialogue with Michael Albertus

Feb 27, 2025
01:23:48

In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Michael Albertus about land power. They define land power, land sovereignty, and discuss land ownership. They talk about the great reshuffle, settler reforms, collective reforms, land-to-tiller reforms, and cooperative reforms. They discuss federal vs. private lands, 1860 Homestead Act, land and race, Native Americans and land, El Salvador and land control, Venezuela’s land revolution, land reconciliation in South Africa, and many more topics.

Michael Albertus is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He studied math, electrical engineering, and political science at the University of Michigan and earned degrees in all three. He has PhD in political science at Stanford University. His books and articles have won numerous awards and shifted conventional understandings of democracy, authoritarianism, and the consequences of how humans occupy and relate to the land. He is the author of the newest book, Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies.

Website: https://www.michaelalbertus.com/



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