Gender, Property and Politics in the Pacific - Who Speaks for Land?

"Through close engagement with Solomon Islands, Rebecca Monson outlines how land disputes are multiscalar and entangled with gender, with implications for public authority and state formation. Drawing insights from law, geography and anthropology, Monson enriches debates about land tenure, gender inequality, ethno-territoriality and legal pluralism"--

List of contents

1. Grounding debates about land: gender inequality, property and the state; 2. Navigating custom, church and state: property, territory and authority in the protectorate era; 3. Chiefs, Priests and Vuluvulu: selective recognition and the simplification of authority in Marovo Lagoon; 4. From Taovia to Trustee: land disputes, insecurity and authority in Kakabona; 5. 'Land is our mother': ethno-territorial conflict and state formation; 6. Women speak for land: disrupting and re-forming property and authority.

About the author

Rebecca Monson is Associate Professor at the Australian National University College of Law. She has combined research and practice in the fields of gender inequality, justice systems and resource governance for over fifteen years, with a particular focus on Australia and the Pacific Islands region. She has held several Australian Research Council grants to examine legal systems in the Pacific, and regularly provides advice to aid donors, government agencies, and international organisations.

Summary

Through close engagement with Solomon Islands, Rebecca Monson outlines how land disputes are multiscalar and entangled with gender, with implications for public authority and state formation. Drawing insights from law, geography and anthropology, Monson enriches debates about land tenure, gender inequality, ethno-territoriality and legal pluralism.

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Monson, Rebecca (Australian National University Monson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9781108844802
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84480-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; Human Rights, LAW / General, Human rights & civil liberties law, Political science & theory, Gender & the law, Political science and theory, Human rights, civil rights, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, Property law: general, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Law and society, gender issues, Solomon Islands, property law