Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa

Informationen zum Autor Christian Lund has worked on issues concerning land and politics in West Africa for almost twenty years. He is the author of Law, Power, and Politics in Niger: Land Struggles and the Rural Code (1998) and the editor and coeditor, respectively, of Twilight Institutions: Public Authority and Local Politics in Africa (2007) and Negotiating Property in Africa (2002). In addition, he has published in Africa, Development and Change, the Journal of Modern African Studies, and World Development. Lund is a member of the Social Science Research Council in Denmark and director of the Graduate School in International Development Studies at Roskilde University. Lund was also editor of the European Journal of Development Research from 2000 to 2004. Klappentext This book looks at how public authority and the state are formed throughout Africa in land struggles and debates over property. Zusammenfassung People exert tremendous energy to have land claims recognized as rights with a variety of political! administrative! and legal institutions in Africa. This book provides a detailed analysis of how public authority and the state are formed through debates and struggles over property in the Upper East Region of Ghana. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Local politics and the dynamics of property: an introduction; 2. 'This situation is incongruous in the extreme': the history of land policies in the Upper Regions of Ghana; 3. Who owns Bolgatanga? The revival of the earthpriest and emerging tensions over property; 4. Seizing opportunities: chieftaincy, land and local administration; 5. Settled facts or facts to settle?: land conflicts under institutional uncertainty; 6. 'Bakwu is still volatile': ethno-political conflict and state recognition; 7. The rent of non-enforcement: access to forest resources; 8. Small dams and fluid tenure; 9. Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Christian Lund, Christian (Roskilde Universitetscenter Lund, Lund Christian, Christian Lunf
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.03.2010
• EAN: 9780521148511
• ISBN: 978-0-521-14851-1
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, HISTORY / Africa / General, Africa, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Land Rights, Human rights, civil rights, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state, Regional, state and other local government