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Gaining Ground? - Couverture souple

James, Deborah

 
9780415420310: Gaining Ground?
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0415420318 ISBN 13 : 9780415420310
Editeur : Routledge-Cavendish, 2006

Synopsis

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

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À propos de l'auteur

Deborah James is a Reader in the Department of Anthropology, LSE.

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Éditeur
Routledge-Cavendish
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0415420318
ISBN 13 
9780415420310
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
304
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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