Tim Bartley is Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. He is the author of Rules without Rights: Land, Labor, and Private Authority in the Global Economy, which examines sustainability and labor standards in Indonesia and China, and 'Transnational Corporations and Global Governance', published in the Annual Review of Sociology.

• Introduction: Toward a Political Sociology of Land; Tim Bartley 1.The State's Unintentional Production of Turf-Controlling Neighborhood Elites in 20th century Lima, Peru; Simeon J. Newman 2.Land, Power, and Property Tax Limitation; Isaac William Martin 3.A Seat at the Table: Coalition Building, Fragmentation, and Progressive Polarization in an Anti-fracking Movement; Amanda Buday 4.Agenda-Dynamics in the European Politics of Land: Explaining the Soil Protection Gap; Henning Deters 5.Assembling Land Access and Legibility: The Case of Morocco's Gharb Region; David Balgley 6.Urban Agriculture, Revalorization, and Green Gentrification in Denver, Colorado; Joshua Sbicca 7.Resistance Against Land Grabs in Senegal: Factors of Success and Partial Failure of an Emergent Social Movement; Marie Gagné 8.Land for Social Security: Political Survival and Welfare Distribution in Rural China; In Hyee Hwang 9.The Intersection of Violence and Land Inequality in Modern Colombia; Laurence Gabriel Nelson