The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution 'Restoring What Was Ours' |
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| Editor:
| Fay, Derick
James, Deborah |
| ISBN: | 978-0-415-46108-5 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2008 |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Group
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| Imprint: | Routledge Cavendish |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $180.00 |
Book Description:
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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 the present, and may allow former landholders to reclaim lands whichprovidedthe basis of earlier identities...
More DescriptionThe 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 the present, and may allow former landholders to reclaim lands whichprovidedthe basis of earlier identities and livelihoods. Addressing the practical and theoretical questions that arise,this book offers a critical rethinking ofthe links between land restitution and property, social transition, injustice, citizenship, the state and the market.