This collection of essays hand explores a major undercurrent of the debate on rights, namely the question of universalism and cultural relativism. It also explores how rights are claimed and contested, vindicated and politicized and, in different ways, transform social practice.
This collection of essays hand explores a major undercurrent of the debate on rights, namely the question of universalism and cultural relativism. It ...
This collection of research papers from across the African continent illustrates the complex and ever-changing rules of the land tenure game, and how government legislation and reform interact with local innovations to form land tenure systems.
This collection of research papers from across the African continent illustrates the complex and ever-changing rules of the land tenure game, and how ...
Access to land, water and natural resources has always been an important issue in Africa. These essays focus on the mundane, everyday politics of the institutionalization of rights and exclusion and the resulting agendas of different groups vying for a stake or share.
Access to land, water and natural resources has always been an important issue in Africa. These essays focus on the mundane, everyday politics of the ...
Access to land and property is vital to people s livelihoods in rural, peri-urban, and urban areas in Africa. People exert tremendous energy and imagination to have land claims recognized as rights with a variety of political, administrative, and legal institutions. This book is dedicated to a detailed analysis of how public authority and the state are formed through debates and struggles over property in the Upper East Region of Ghana. While scarcity may indeed promote exclusivity, the evidence from this book shows that when there are many institutions competing for the right to authorize...
Access to land and property is vital to people s livelihoods in rural, peri-urban, and urban areas in Africa. People exert tremendous energy and imagi...
