African land questions, agrarian transitions and the state: contradictions of neo-liberal land reforms
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1. Verfasser: Moyo, Sam (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Dakar, Senegal Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa c2008
Schriftenreihe:Green book (Codesria)
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [146]-159)
1. Introduction --- 2. Conceptual Issues and Perspectives on the Land and Agrarian Question. The land question in the era of neo-iberal developrnentalism -- The unique and diverse land questions of Africa --- 3. African Land Questions: Trends and Tendencies. The land distribution question: Trends and sources -- Unequal land rights, discriminatory tenure systems -- Agrarian 'transition' in Africa: Land use patterns and distorted growth -- African urban land questions --- 4. Gender Land Inequalities and Tenure Insecurity. Patriarchy, power relations and unequal gender land rights -- Patterns of gender based land inequities -- Cocluding remarks: Advocacy for women's land rights --- 5. The African State, Land Reform ana Politics. The African state, land policy and primitive accumulation -- The state and land reforms in Africa -- Redistributive land reforms: State-led and market 'assisted' tendencies -- Land tenure reforms -- Local state governance and customary land tenure administration --- 6. Social Movements, Civil Society and Land Reform. Social movements, and rights and struggle -- The organisation of land struggles -- Neo liberal land advocacy and the co-option of land reform -- Land occupation movements of peasants and others -- Ethno-regional movements, successionism and revolts --- 7. Conclusions and Suggested Research Directions. Historical trajectories of the land question and the agrarian transition -- The land distribution question and redistributive land reforms -- The politics of land, state-civil society relations, and land movements -- Gender relations, access to land and tenure -- Land tenure, property rights and land markets -- Land use and extroverted accumulation processes -- The urban land question
This empirically grounded study provides a critical reflection on the land question in Africa, research on which tends to be tangential, conceptually loose and generally inadequate. It argues that the most pressing research concern must be to understand the precise nature of the African land question, its land reforms and their effects on development. To unravel the roots of land conflicts in Africa requires thorough understanding of the complex social and political contradictions which have ensued from colonial and post-colonial land policies, as well as from Africa's 'development' and capital accumulation trajectories, especially with regard to the land rights of the continent's poor. The study thus questions the capacity of emerging neo-liberal economic and political regimes in Africa to deliver land reforms which address growing inequality and poverty. It equally questions the understanding of the nature of popular demands for land reforms by African states, and their ability to address these demands under the current global political and economic structures dictated by neo-liberalism and its narrow regime of ownership. The study invites scholars and policy makers to creatively draw on the specific historical trajectories and contemporary expression of the land and agrarian questions in Africa, to enrich both theory and practice on land in Africa
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ISBN:2869782020
2869783841
9782869782020
9782869783843

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