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Understanding how people are living on, with, and from their land reveals the often-hidden dynamics of contemporary social and political change, according to Wendy Wolford, Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Global Development and vice provost for International Affairs. This topic is explored in the new publication "The Social Lives of Land" (Cornell University Press, 2024) which she co-edited with Michael Goldman and Nancy Lee Peluso. In a Chats in the Stacks book talk presented at Mann Library in October 2024, Wolford discusses how "The Social Lives of Land" weaves together novel theoretical and empirical insights and contributions from multiple disciplines and geographic locations to uncover histories and re-tell stories that focus on the lived experiences of rural and urban land dispossession and repossession.