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This special issue examines the politics of land focusing on the
intersections of dominant land and property regimes and situated land
practices that are not characterized by open conflict, but rather
mundane everyday negotiations. The selected papers show that the
interrelations between landed practices and regimes of land are
extremely variegated and complex, shaped by socio-economic factors as
well as by their own peculiar geographies and temporalities. Thus, they
can be examined most adequately in the specific geographic, socioeconomic

Between 2012 and 2016, while the financial crisis was unfolding its effects in Italy and globally,
several divestments of Italian State-owned companies were carried out, leading observers to believe that a new
season of privatizations — similar to the one carried out in the 1990s — had finally been launched.
However, after the initial considerable divestments announcing the completion of privatization of large
public companies, the momentum faded away due to the strong Italian political instability combined with an