In The Land Of The Chiefs
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In The Land Of The Chiefs
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Author : Janine M. Ubink
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 2008
In The Land Of The Chiefs written by Janine M. Ubink and has been published by Amsterdam University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Land tenure categories.
This book studies practices of land management in peri-urban Ghana where traditional leadership forms a vibrant part of social life. International policy is currently witnessing a renewed interest in customary tenure systems as well as traditional leadership, through which it aims to enhance the efficiency of local governance and create general access to and secure rights in land. Contrary to these ideas, practice reveals a lack of security of customary tenure in areas with a high competition for land. Mounting evidence displays that customary systems often evolve inequitably and that traditional elites benefit disproportionally from commodification of land. In an effort to understand customary land management by traditional authorities and the role policymakers, lawmakers, judges and civil servants play in this process, this book studies practices of land management in peri-urban Ghana where traditional leadership forms a vibrant part of social life. This book combines local case studies with theories about efficient land management, the resilience of traditional leadership, the negotiability of customary law and the gap between judges' customary law and local practices. Doing so, it offers a unique body of empirical and theoretical knowledge for those interested in customary land management, as well as those interested in how customary law functions both at the local level and at the level of the state.
Land Law And Chiefs In Rural South Africa
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Author : William Beinart
language : en
Publisher: Wits University Press
Release Date : 2021-05-01
Land Law And Chiefs In Rural South Africa written by William Beinart and has been published by Wits University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-01 with Law categories.
This edited collection illustrates contestations over land and political authority in South Africa’s rural areas, focusing on threats to popular rights and how they are being supported. Who controls the land and minerals in the former Bantustans of South Africa - chiefs, the state or landholders? Disputes are taking place around the ownership of resources, decisions about their exploitation and who should benefit. With respect to all of these issues, the courts have become increasingly important. The contributors to Land, Law and Chiefs in Rural South Africa capture some of these intense contestations over land, law and political authority, focussing on threats to the rights of ordinary people. History and customary law feature strongly in most disputes and succession to chieftaincy is also frequently disputed. Judges have to make decisions in a context where rival claimants to property or office assert their own versions of history and custom. The South African constitution recognizes customary law and the courts are attempting to incorporate and develop this branch of jurisprudence as ‘living customary law’. Lawyers, community leaders and academics are called on to assist in researching cases around restitution, land rights and customary law. The chapters in this collection discuss legal cases and policy directions that have evolved since 1994. Some chapters analyze the increasing power of chiefs in the South African rural areas, while others suggest that the courts are giving support to popular rights over land and supporting local democratic processes. Contributors record significant pushback from groups that reject traditional authority. These political tensions are a central theme of the collection and thus serve as vital case studies in furthering our understanding of rights and restitution in South Africa.
Chiefs Commoners And The Land
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Author : Sam Rugege
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Chiefs Commoners And The Land written by Sam Rugege and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Land tenure categories.
Towards Defragmenting The Management System Of Lake Chilwa Basin Malawi
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Author : Peter Mvula
language : en
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Release Date : 2014
Towards Defragmenting The Management System Of Lake Chilwa Basin Malawi written by Peter Mvula and has been published by LIT Verlag Münster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Nature categories.
The book presents results of the Defragmenting African Resource Management (DARMA) Project covering the Lake Chilwa basin in Malawi. The central theme is that, in order to ensure resource base sustainability, research and management within the basin should adopt an ecosystems approach. Presently, research and management of the basin is sector-based, hence resource user conflicts are increasing. User demand for various resources is increasing rapidly, mainly due to population increase and lack of alternative economic activities, thereby presenting challenges to sustainable resource management. Specific areas of sectoral interconnections are highlighted and defragmentation options suggested. (Series: Defragmenting African Resource Management [DARMA] - Vol. 1)
The Flight Of The Chiefs
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Author : Buell Halvor Quain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1942
The Flight Of The Chiefs written by Buell Halvor Quain and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1942 with English poetry categories.
The Spirit In The Land
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Author : Gisday Wa
language : en
Publisher: Gabriola, B.C. : Reflections
Release Date : 1989
The Spirit In The Land written by Gisday Wa and has been published by Gabriola, B.C. : Reflections this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Gitksan Indians categories.
The Paradox Of Traditional Chiefs In Democratic Africa
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Author : Kate Baldwin
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016
The Paradox Of Traditional Chiefs In Democratic Africa written by Kate Baldwin and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Political Science categories.
This book shows that powerful hereditary chiefs do not undermine democracy in Africa but, on some level, facilitate it.
Chiefs Priests And Praise Singers
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Author : Wyatt MacGaffey
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2013-03-13
Chiefs Priests And Praise Singers written by Wyatt MacGaffey and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-13 with History categories.
In his new book, the eminent anthropologist Wyatt MacGaffey provides an ethnographically enriched history of Dagbon from the fifteenth century to the present, setting that history in the context of the regional resources and political culture of northern Ghana. Chiefs, Priests, and Praise-Singers shows how the history commonly assumed by scholars has been shaped by the prejudices of colonial anthropology, the needs of British indirect rule, and local political agency. The book demonstrates, too, how political agency has shaped the kinship system. MacGaffey traces the evolution of chieftaincy as the sources of power changed and as land ceased to be simply the living space of the dependents of a chief and became a commodity and a resource for development. The internal violence in Dagbon that has been a topic of national and international concern since 2002 is shown to be a product of the interwoven values of tradition, modern Ghanaian politics, modern education, and economic opportunism.
Chiefs Priests And Praise Singers
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Author : Wyatt MacGaffey
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2013
Chiefs Priests And Praise Singers written by Wyatt MacGaffey and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
Colonial anthropology and historical reconstruction -- Drum chant and the political uses of tradition -- Tindanas and chiefs : ethnography -- Chiefs and tindanas : making 'nam' -- Tamale : the Dakpema, the Gulkpe'Na, the Bugulana, and the law of the land -- Chiefs in the national arena.
Separate Peoples One Land
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Author : Cynthia Cumfer
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2012-09-01
Separate Peoples One Land written by Cynthia Cumfer and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-01 with History categories.
Exploring the mental worlds of the major groups interacting in a borderland setting, Cynthia Cumfer offers a broad, multiracial intellectual and cultural history of the Tennessee frontier in the Revolutionary and early national periods, leading up to the era of rapid westward expansion and Cherokee removal. Attentive to the complexities of race, gender, class, and spirituality, Cumfer offers a rare glimpse into the cultural logic of Native American, African American, and Euro-American men and women as contact with one another powerfully transformed their ideas about themselves and the territory they came to share. The Tennessee frontier shaped both Cherokee and white assumptions about diplomacy and nationhood. After contact, both groups moved away from local and personal notions about polity to embrace nationhood. Excluded from the nationalization process, slaves revived and modified African and American premises about patronage and community, while free blacks fashioned an African American doctrine of freedom that was both communal and individual. Paying particular attention to the influence of older European concepts of civilization, Cumfer shows how Tennesseans, along with other Americans and Europeans, modified European assumptions to contribute to a discourse about civilization, one both dynamic and destructive, which has profoundly shaped world history.