In The Land of the Chiefs - Couverture souple

Ubink, Janine

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9087280416 ISBN 13 : 9789087280413

Editeur : Amsterdam University Press, 2008

Synopsis

International policy is currently witnessing a renewed interest in customary tenure systems as well as traditional leadership, through which it aims to enhance the efficiency of local governance and create general access to and secure rights in land. Contrary to these ideas, practice reveals a lack of security of customary tenure in areas with a high competition for land. Mounting evidence displays that customary systems often evolve inequitably and that traditional elites benefit disproportionally from commodification of land. In an effort to understand customary land management by traditional authorities and the role policymakers, lawmakers, judges and civil servants play in this process, this book studies practices of land management in peri-urban Ghana where traditional leadership forms a vibrant part of social life.
This book combines local case studies with theories about efficient land management, the resilience of traditional leadership, the negotiability of customary law and the gap between judges' customary law and local practices. Doing so, it offers a unique body of empirical and theoretical knowledge for those interested in customary land management, as well as those interested in how customary law functions both at the local level and at the level of the state.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Janine Ubink is senior lecturer law and governance in Africa, at the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Development at Leiden University.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Studie naar de praktijk van grondbestuur in geurbaniseerde gebieden van Ghana.

Dit boek omvat een studie naar de praktijk van grondbestuur in geurbaniseerde gebieden van Ghana. Het analyseert zowel het beheer van grond door traditionele autoriteiten op basis van gewoonterecht als de rol die beleidsmakers, rechters en ambtenaren hierin spelen. 'In the Land of the Chiefs' combineert lokale gevalstudies met theorieën over efficiënt grondbestuur, de veerkracht van traditioneel leiderschap, de flexibiliteit van gewoonterecht en het gat tussen rechtspraak en lokale gebruiken.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Amsterdam University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9087280416
• ISBN 13: 9789087280413
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible