Gaining Ground?
Rights and Property in South African Land Reform
Seiten
2006
Routledge Cavendish (Verlag)
978-1-904385-62-2 (ISBN)
Routledge Cavendish (Verlag)
978-1-904385-62-2 (ISBN)
Mugabe's policy of land seizures in Zimbabwe raised concerns in South Africa. Set amidst these conflicts, Gaining Ground? shows how land reform policy and practice in post-apartheid South Africa has been produced and contested.
Winner of the inaugural Elliott P. Skinner Book Award of the Association of Africanist Anthropology, 2008
Gaining Ground? Rights and Property in South African Land Reform examines how land reform policy and practice in post-apartheid South Africa have been produced and contested.
Set in the province of Mpumalanga, the book gives an ethnographic account of local initiatives and conflicts, showing how the poorest sectors of the landless have defied the South African state's attempts to privatize land holdings and create a new class of African farmers. They insist that the 'rights-based' rather than the 'market-driven' version of land reform should prevail and that land restitution was intended to benefit all Africans. However their attempts to gain land access often backfire. Despite state assurances that land reform would benefit all, illegal land selling and 'brokering' are pervasive, representing one of the only feasible routes to land access by the poor.
This book shows how human rights lawyers, NGOs and the state, in interaction with local communities, have tried to square these symbolic and economic claims on land.
Winner of the inaugural Elliott P. Skinner Book Award of the Association of Africanist Anthropology, 2008
Winner of the inaugural Elliott P. Skinner Book Award of the Association of Africanist Anthropology, 2008
Gaining Ground? Rights and Property in South African Land Reform examines how land reform policy and practice in post-apartheid South Africa have been produced and contested.
Set in the province of Mpumalanga, the book gives an ethnographic account of local initiatives and conflicts, showing how the poorest sectors of the landless have defied the South African state's attempts to privatize land holdings and create a new class of African farmers. They insist that the 'rights-based' rather than the 'market-driven' version of land reform should prevail and that land restitution was intended to benefit all Africans. However their attempts to gain land access often backfire. Despite state assurances that land reform would benefit all, illegal land selling and 'brokering' are pervasive, representing one of the only feasible routes to land access by the poor.
This book shows how human rights lawyers, NGOs and the state, in interaction with local communities, have tried to square these symbolic and economic claims on land.
Winner of the inaugural Elliott P. Skinner Book Award of the Association of Africanist Anthropology, 2008
Deborah James is a Reader in the Department of Anthropology, LSE.
'Rights' or 'Property'?: State, Society, the Law and the Landless in South Africa. 'A Sentimental Attachment to the Neighbourhood'. Expanding Restitution: The Question of Informal Rights. Challenging Restitution: African Owners, African Tenants and the Politics of Land Reform. 'To Take Back the Land': Labour Tenancy and the Landless Peoples' Movement. Between Public and Private: New Property Models. Rights, Welfare or the Market?: The New Redistribution. Land, Power and People: Chiefs, Brokers and Intermediaries. White Power, Black Redress: The Racial Politics of Land Reform. Conclusion
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 24.11.2006 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 5 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 29 Halftones, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 590 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Sachenrecht | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-904385-62-1 / 1904385621 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-904385-62-2 / 9781904385622 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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