New book: Conflicts Over Land and Water in Africa by B. Derman R. Odgaard E. Sjaastad (eds.)
WebmasterEfforts to change the race-based systems of land ownership and land tenure in Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe have pushed land issues to the forefront of social and economic discourses in Africa. This collection examines the broader context of the reemergence of land reform and resource conflicts. The case studies examine the links between identity maintenance, tenurial changes, state intervention and forms and modes of conflict. The authors emphasize the need for a deeper understanding of local histories, cultures and motivations if efforts to attain a more just distribution of resources are to succeed.
TITLE: Conflicts Over Land and Water in Africa
EDITOR: Bill Derman Rie Odgaard Espen Sjaastad
PUBLISHER: James Currey Ltd
FORMAT: Paperback (pp: 320) 234 x 156mm
ISBN-10: 0852558880
ISBN-13: 9780852558881
PUB DATE: 01 Sep 2007
AVAILABILITY: Not yet available
PRICE: £17.95
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY:
Bill Derman is professor of Anthropology and African Studies at Michigan State University and professor II at the Center for International Environment & Development Studies (Noragric) at the Agricultural University of Norway; Rie Odgaard is senior researcher and anthropologist at the Danish Institute for International Studies in Copenhagen; Espen Sjaastad is an associate professor at the Centre for International Environment & Development Studies (Noragric), Agricultural University of Norway
CONTENTS:
Introduction by Bill Derman, Rie Odgaard & Espen Sjaastad
- I CONFLICT & CUSTOM
- Conflicts & the reinterpretation of customary tenure in Ghana by Kojo Amanor
- Land tenure & land conflicts among the Kwanja, in Adamawa, northern Cameroon
- 'our land is not for sale'
- by Quentin Gausset
- Adaptability, identity & conflict mediation among the Hawawir in northern Sudan by Kjersti Larsen
- II LAND REFORM, POLICY & CONFLICT
- Negotiation access to land in West Africa
- who is losing out? by Camilla Toulmin
- Land tenure reform in a Namaqualand communal area, South Africa
- contesting Komaggas by Poul Wisborg
- Land reform & the rekindling of land conflicts in South Africa
- rural women's access to land by Nancy Andrew
- III LAND, IDENTITY & VIOLENCE
- Land, identity & violence in Zimbabwe by Bill Derman & Anne Hellum
- The authority of violence of a hunters' association in Western Burkina Faso
- 'each bird is sitting in it own tree'
- by Sten Hagberg
- Contested identities & resource conflicts in Morogoro region, Tanzania
- who is indigenous? by Faustin Maganga, Rie Odgaard & Espen Sjaastad
- The use & management of water sources in Kenya's drylands
- is there a link between scarcity & violent conflict? by Karen Witsenburg & Adano Wario Roba.
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Illustrations: 2 photographs, figures, maps Dewey: 333.316
Updated: 30.08.07
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Noragric, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
P.O. Box 5003
NO-1432 Aas
Norway
Visiting/delivery address:
Universitetstunet 1 (Tivoli)
NO-1432 Ås