D. Asher Ghertner is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Rutgers University. He is author of Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi.

Robert W. Lake is Professor Emeritus in the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. He is co-editor of The Power of Pragmatism.

Introduction: Land Fictions and the Politics of Commodification in City and Country, by D. Asher Ghertner and Robert W. Lake

1. Fictitious but Not Utopian: Land Commodification and Dispossession in Rural India, by Michael Levien

2. Fictions of Surplus: Commodifying Public Land in Canada and the United Kingdom, by Brett Christophers and Heather Whiteside

3. Fictions of Safety: Defensive Storylines in Global Property Investment, by Sarah Knuth

4. Ground Fictions: Soil, Property, and Markets in the Colombian Conflict, by Meghan Morris

5. Narratives of Waste: The Fictions and Frictions of Land Commodification in Liberalizing India, by Sai Balakrishnan

6. Rental Fictions: Speculating in Rent-Regulated Housing, by Benjamin Teresa

7. The Fiction of Formalization: Titles, Concessions, and the Politics of Landownership in Cambodia, by Michael L. Dwyer

8. Regularization and the Fictions of Planning "Unauthorized Delhi", by D. Asher Ghertner

9. The Sanctuary of the Collective: Contesting the Fictions of State-Led Land Commodification in Peri-Urban Guangzhou, by Mi Shih

10. Rights Gone Wrong on the City's Edge: The Fictions and Fetishes of Land Documents in Ho Chi Minh City, by Erik Harms

11. Where Materiality Meets Subjectivity: Locating the Political in the Contested Fiction of Urban Land in Camden, New Jersey, by Robert W. Lake

12. The State of Land Grabs: Regulatory Fictions in Ghana's "Small-Scale" Gold Mining Sector, by Heidi Hausermann and David Ferring

Afterword: Land Fictions in the Longue Durée, by Michael Watts