1st Edition

The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution 'Restoring What Was Ours'

Edited By Derick Fay, Deborah James Copyright 2009
312 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

312 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

312 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution: ‘Restoring What Was Ours’ offers a critical, comparative ethnographic, examination of land restitution programs. Drawing on memories and histories of past dispossession, governments, NGOs, informal movements and individual claimants worldwide have attempted to restore and reclaim rights in land. Land restitution programs link the past and... Read more

1. Restoring What Was Ours: An Introduction, Derick Fay and Deborah James  2. Property, Subjection And Protected Areas: The ‘Restitution’ Of Dwesa-Cwebe Nature Reserves, South Africa, Derick Fay  3. ‘They Should Be Killed’: Forest Restitution, Ethnic Groups, And Patronage In Postsocialist Romania, Stefan Dorondel  4. The Lie Of The Land: Identity Politics and the Canadian Land Claims Process In Labrador, Evelyn Plaice  5. The Antithesis of Restitution? A Note on the Dynamics of Land Negotiations in the Yukon, Canada, Paul Nadasdy  6. Performing Law: The Yolngu of Blue Mud Bay Meet The Native Title Process in Australia, Frances Morphy  7. Ethnoracial Land Restitution: Finding Indians And Fugitive Slave Descendants In The Brazilian Northeast, Fran Hoffman French  8. The Will-To-Community: Between Loss And Reclamation In Cape Town, Christiaan Beyers  9. Through the Prism: ‘Shifting Articulations’ and Local Reworking of Land Restitution Settlements in South Africa, Yves van Leynseele and Paul Hebinck  10. Dueños de Todo y de Nada! (Owners of All and Nothing): Restitution Of Indian Territories in the Central Andes of Peru, Monique Nuijten and David Lorenzo  11. Que Sucede con Procede? The End of Land Restitution in Rural Mexico, Kristina Tiedje  12. 'We'll Never Give In To The Indians’: Opposition To Restitution In New York State, Brian Blancke

 

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Derick Fay, Deborah James