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Overview

Christian Lund is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their research focuses on topics related to social sciences and agricultural and biological sciences, with numerous publications spanning interdisciplinary areas. The scientist's main fields of study include social sciences and agricultural and biological sciences, while their subfields extend to sociology and political science, political science and international relations, general agricultural and biological sciences, soil science, and law.

Key topics in Christian Lund's work include:

  • Land Rights and Reforms
  • Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
  • Asian Studies and History
  • Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
  • Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
  • Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls
  • Political Conflict and Governance

Their frequent co-authors are:

  • Yumiko Sakuragi
  • Hilary Oliva Faxon
  • Mattias Borg Rasmussen
  • Mariève Pouliot
  • Robert Vitalis

Christian Lund has published in several venues, with a notable focus on:

  • The Journal of Peasant Studies (5 publications)
  • Antipode (2 publications)
  • The Journal of Development Studies
  • The AAG Review of Books
  • Globalizations

Significant recent papers include:

  • Ordering Violence: Explaining Armed Group-State Relations from Conflict to Cooperation, 2023, published in The Journal of Development Studies
  • Pectin Synthesis and Pollen Tube Growth in Arabidopsis Involves Three GAUT1 Golgi-Anchoring Proteins: GAUT5, GAUT6, and GAUT7, 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial, 2022, The AAG Review of Books
  • An air of legality - legalization under conditions of rightlessness in Indonesia, 2022, The Journal of Peasant Studies
  • Coding regimes of possession. An essay on land, property, and law, 2024, Globalizations

Christian Lund is also an author of books published by Yale University Press, including multiple editions of Nine-Tenths of the Law during 2020 and 2021.

Best Publications

  • New frontiers of land control: Introduction

    Nancy Lee Peluso;Christian Lund

  • Twilight Institutions: Public Authority and Local Politics in Africa

    Christian Lund

  • Access and Property: A Question of Power and Authority

    Thomas Sikor;Christian Lund

  • Reconfiguring Frontier Spaces: The territorialization of resource control

    Mattias Borg Rasmussen;Christian Lund

  • Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa

    Christian Lund

  • Twilight Institutions: An Introduction

    Christian Lund

  • Of What is This a Case?: Analytical Movements in Qualitative Social Science Research

    Christian Lund

  • Formalisation of land rights: Some empirical evidence from Mali, Niger and South Africa

    Tor A. Benjaminsen;Stein Holden;Christian Lund;Espen Sjaastad

  • Fragmented sovereignty: land reform and dispossession in Laos

    Christian Lund

  • Rule and Rupture: State Formation through the Production of Property and Citizenship

    Christian Lund

  • [Introduction]: Land politics in Africa: constituting authority over territory, property and persons

    Christian Lund;Catherine Boone

  • Colonial lives of property: law, land, and racial regimes of ownership

    Christian Lund

  • Law, Power and Politics in Niger: Land Struggles and the Rural Code

    Christian Lund

  • Property and Citizenship: Conceptually Connecting Land Rights and Belonging in Africa

    Christian Lund

  • Formalisation and Informalisation of Land and Water Rights in Africa: An Introduction

    Tor A Benjaminsen;Christian Lund

  • Negotiating Property in Africa

    Kristine Juul;Christian Lund

  • Securing Land Rights in Africa

    Tor A. Benjaminsen;Christian Lund

  • The politics of possession : property, authority and access to natural resources

    Thomas Sikor;Christian Lund

  • New frontiers of land control

    Nancy Lee Peluso;Christian Lund

  • 'Bawku is Still Volatile': Ethno-Political Conflict and State Recognition in Northern Ghana

    Christian Lund

  • African land tenure: questioning basic assumptions.

    Christian Lund

  • Governing Access to Forests in Northern Ghana: Micro-Politics and the Rents of Non-Enforcement

    D. Andrew Wardell;Christian Lund

  • Chapter 1. Access and Property: A Question of Power and Authority

    Thomas Sikor Reader;Christian Lund

Frequent Co-Authors

Tor A. Benjaminsen
Tor A. Benjaminsen Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Thomas Sikor
Thomas Sikor University of East Anglia
Nancy Lee Peluso
Nancy Lee Peluso University of California, Berkeley
Stein T. Holden
Stein T. Holden Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Catherine Boone
Catherine Boone London School of Economics and Political Science
Debra Mohnen
Debra Mohnen University of Georgia
Anette Reenberg
Anette Reenberg University of Copenhagen
Benjamin K. Sovacool
Benjamin K. Sovacool University of Sussex

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