Our Land, Our Survival: Vulnerabilization and Decolonial Resistance through Communal Land in Puerto Rico...

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Line Algoed

Our Land, Our Survival

Vulnerabilization and Decolonial Resistance through Communal Land in Puerto Rico and Barbuda...

Line Algoed

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English

Terra Nostra Press
21 October 2025

Colonialism & imperialism; National liberation & independence, post-colonialism; Social issues & processes; Political activism; Development economics

""Collective landholding has served as a 'strategy of resistance.' It has allowed communities to withstand displacement pressures from land-clearing hurricanes and land-grabbing capitalists who predictably appear in their wake. It has enabled devastated communities to recover more quickly and to develop more equitably.""--John Emmeus Davis (from the Foreword)

Our Land, Our Survival explores the vital role of communal land in protecting communities and the environment in the wake of disaster. Focusing on Barbuda and Puerto Rico's Caño Martín Peña area after the 2017 hurricanes, it reveals how land grabbing, displacement, and global capital threaten local ways of life. Against these pressures, communities defend their land, strengthen solidarity, and nurture sustainable practices that benefit both people and nature. Algoed and her co-authors celebrate the resistance and creativity of these communities, showing how their alternative ways of owning and managing land offer powerful lessons for survival, justice, and a more equitable future.

By: Line Algoed
Imprint: Terra Nostra Press
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 268g
ISBN: 9798986177649
Pages: 222
Publication Date: 21 October 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Line Algoed is an urban anthropologist and human geographer with expertise in communal land tenure, participatory urban planning, and affordable housing. She is a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the Cosmopolis Center for Urban Research, Department of Geography, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Her research explores the role of communal land tenure in the face of climate change in the Caribbean. She collaborates with the Caño Martín Peña Community Land Trust in Puerto Rico on international exchange projects, serves on the Board of Directors of the International Center for Community Land Trusts, and is co-editor of the book On Common Ground: International Perspectives on the Community Land Trust.