Gaining Ground?: Rights and Property in South African Land Reform

ISBN-13: 9780415420310 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 304 str.

Deborah James

Opis

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

Spis treści

'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

O autorze

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