Peri-urban Land Transactions : Everyday Practices and Relations in Peri-urban Blantyre, Malawi /

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This book explores the changing land relations in the peri-urban villages of Blantyre in Malawi. It questions and debates how and why the peri-urban villages have become the locus of the selling and buying of customary land, the practices and also the relations involved. The book provides rich ethno...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jimu, Ignasio Malizani
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Oxford, Eng?] : Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective, 2012
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Economic anthropology > Malawi > Blantyre.
Customary law > Malawi > Blantyre.
Real property > Social aspects > Malawi > Blantyre.
Land titles > Registration and transfer > Malawi > Blantyre.
Land tenure > Malawi > Blantyre.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The researcher as participant : method, theory and limitations
  • Locating the peri-urban : the socio-cultural and livelihoods context
  • Commodification and objectification of peri-urban land
  • Practices and legitimation in peri-urban land transactions
  • Peri-urban land disputes and dispute resolution
  • Intermediaries in Peri-urban land transactions
  • Intentionality and implications of selling peri-urban land
  • Epilogue on peri-urban land transactions.

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