UID:
almahu_9947414218902882
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 416 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781139629256 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in comparative politics
Content:
In sub-Saharan Africa, property relationships around land and access to natural resources vary across localities, districts and farming regions. These differences produce patterned variations in relationships between individuals, communities and the state. This book captures these patterns in an analysis of structure and variation in rural land tenure regimes. In most farming areas, state authority is deeply embedded in land regimes, drawing farmers, ethnic insiders and outsiders, lineages, villages and communities into direct and indirect relationships with political authorities at different levels of the state apparatus. The analysis shows how property institutions - institutions that define political authority and hierarchy around land - shape dynamics of great interest to scholars of politics, including the dynamics of land-related competition and conflict, territorial conflict, patron-client relations, electoral cleavage and mobilization, ethnic politics, rural rebellion, and the localization and 'nationalization' of political competition.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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1. Introduction : Property regimes and land conflict : seeing institutions and their effects -- Land tenure regimes and political order in rural Africa -- Rising competition for land : redistribution and its varied political effects -- Ethnic strangers as second-class citizens. Ethnic heterogeneity in western Burkina Faso -- Expulsion of aliens from Ghana's cocoa region -- Land tensions in western Ghana. -- Ethnic strangers as protected clients of the state. Southwestern Côte d'Ivoire : strangers imposed "by force!" -- Kenya's Rift Valley settlers -- "Forced cohabitation" in eastern DRC. -- Land conflict at the micro-scale : family. Western Kenya : Kisii. -- Chieftaincy : the local state as arena of redistributive conflict. Northern Cameroon : states within the state -- Conflict repressed within chieftaincies : periurban Kumasi, Ghana. Land conflict at the national scale. Rwanda. -- Winning and losing politically-allocated land rights. Kenya since 1991-2010 -- Côte d'Ivoire : 1990-2010 -- Rwanda, 1991-4 -- Eastern DRC, 1990-4. -- Zimbabwe in comparative perspective. Elections and expropriations, 2000-2010. Conclusion : property regimes in political explanation. Property regimes in comparative politics -- Economic institutions and democracy -- Patrimonialism vs. bargained institutions -- Ethnicity as a state effect -- Ethnicity and class politics -- Scale effects in political explanation. -- Epilogue : rising pressure on the land.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781107040694
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139629256
