African land questions, agrarian transitions and the state : contradictions of neo-liberal land reforms /

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This empirically grounded study provides a critical reflection on the land question in Africa, research on which tends to be tangential, conceptually loose and generally inadequate. It argues that the most pressing research concern must be to understand the precise nature of the African land questio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moyo, Sam
Autor Corporativo: Codesria
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dakar, Senegal : Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, ©2008.
Colección:Green book (Codesria)
Working paper series (Codesria)
Temas:
Land use > Africa.
Land reform > Africa.
Land tenure > Africa.
Utilisation du sol > Afrique.
Réforme agraire > Afrique.
Bilingual & multilingual dictionaries.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
Land reform
Land tenure
Land use
Africa
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • - 2. Conceptual Issues and Perspectives on the Land and Agrarian Question. The land question in the era of neo-iberal developrnentalism
  • The unique and diverse land questions of Africa
  • - 3. African Land Questions: Trends and Tendencies. The land distribution question: Trends and sources
  • Unequal land rights, discriminatory tenure systems
  • Agrarian 'transition' in Africa: Land use patterns and distorted growth
  • African urban land questions
  • - 4. Gender Land Inequalities and Tenure Insecurity. Patriarchy, power relations and unequal gender land rights
  • Patterns of gender based land inequities
  • Cocluding remarks: Advocacy for women's land rights
  • - 5. The African State, Land Reform ana Politics. The African state, land policy and primitive accumulation
  • The state and land reforms in Africa
  • Redistributive land reforms: State-led and market 'assisted' tendencies
  • Land tenure reforms
  • Local state governance and customary land tenure administration
  • - 6. Social Movements, Civil Society and Land Reform. Social movements, and rights and struggle
  • The organisation of land struggles
  • Neo liberal land advocacy and the co-option of land reform
  • Land occupation movements of peasants and others
  • Ethno-regional movements, successionism and revolts
  • - 7. Conclusions and Suggested Research Directions. Historical trajectories of the land question and the agrarian transition
  • The land distribution question and redistributive land reforms
  • The politics of land, state-civil society relations, and land movements
  • Gender relations, access to land and tenure
  • Land tenure, property rights and land markets
  • Land use and extroverted accumulation processes
  • The urban land question.

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