Christian Lund (University of Copenhagen) on Erik Harms’s Luxury and Rubble: Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon; Michael Levien’s Dispossession without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India; Robbie Peters’ Surabaya, 1945-2010: Neighbourhood, State, and Economy in Indonesia’s City of Struggle; and Meg E. Rithmire’s Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism: The Politics of Property Rights under Reform;