Recent decades have seen a wave of land law reforms across Africa, in the context of a -land rush- and land-grabbing. But how has this been enacted on the ground and, in particular, how have women experienced this? This book seeks to re-orientate current debates on women's land rights towards a focus on the law in action. Drawing on the author's ethnographic research in the Arusha region of Tanzania, it explores how the country's land law reforms have impacted on women's legal claims to land. Centring on cases involving women litigants, the book considers the extent to which women are...
Recent decades have seen a wave of land law reforms across Africa, in the context of a -land rush- and land-grabbing. But how has this been enacted on...
