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Losing your land : dispossession in the great lakes /

Examines a fresh aspect of one of the highest profile issues facing Africa today - land grabbing - and shows just how widespread the impact of small-scale dispossession is, how it coalesces with local power dynamics, resulting in the disruption of people''s lives and threatening their cont...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ansoms, An (Editor ), Hilhorst, Thea (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, England : James Currey, 2014.
Colección:African issues.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations & Acronyms; 1 Introduction: Causes & Risks of Dispossession & Land Grabbing in the Great Lakes Region; 2 Land Grabbing & Development History: The Congolese Experience; 3 This Land is My Land: Land Grabbing in Ituri (DRC); 4 Land Grabbing by Mining Companies: Local Contentions & State Reconfiguration in South Kivu (DRC); 5 Competition over Soil & Subsoil: Land Grabbing by Local Elites in South Kivu (DRC); 6 The Continuities in Contested Land Acquisitions in Uganda.
  • 7 Land Grabbing & Power Relations in Burundi: Practical Norms & Real Governance8 Land Grabbing & Land Tenure Security in Post-Genocide Rwanda; 9 The Reorganization of Rural Space in Rwanda: Habitat Concentration, Land Consolidation & Collective Marshland Cultivation; 10 'Modernizing Kigali': The Struggle for Space, in the Rwandan Urban Context; Conclusion; Index.