UID:
almafu_9961004405702883
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 218 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-78204-341-1
Series Statement:
African issues
Content:
Dispossession of land on a small scale can have as great an impact on living conditions as large-scale land-grabs. With the increasing commodification of land, new forms of dispossession, in urban as well as rural districts, are also gaining in importance. This book looks at this largely uninvestigated issue through case studies in the Eastern DRC, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda: here the loss of land often represents the loss of people's livelihoods in these areas of extreme land scarcity in highly populated regions. In the post-conflict states of the Great Lakes, governance challenges increase the risk of dispossession of the already poor and vulnerable: formal institutions are weak or biased; customary authorities have lost some of their moral authority. The cases in this book show in particular how local power dynamics, often rooted in history, bear upon the processes of land competition, dispossession and land grabbing. This timely volume will be important not only for those in African Studies, but for those in development studies, as well as practitioners and policy-makers worldwide.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Feb 2023).
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Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations & Acronyms; 1 Introduction: Causes & Risks of Dispossession & Land Grabbing in the Great Lakes Region; 2 Land Grabbing & Development History: The Congolese Experience; 3 This Land is My Land: Land Grabbing in Ituri (DRC); 4 Land Grabbing by Mining Companies: Local Contentions & State Reconfiguration in South Kivu (DRC); 5 Competition over Soil & Subsoil: Land Grabbing by Local Elites in South Kivu (DRC); 6 The Continuities in Contested Land Acquisitions in Uganda
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7 Land Grabbing & Power Relations in Burundi: Practical Norms & Real Governance8 Land Grabbing & Land Tenure Security in Post-Genocide Rwanda; 9 The Reorganization of Rural Space in Rwanda: Habitat Concentration, Land Consolidation & Collective Marshland Cultivation; 10 'Modernizing Kigali': The Struggle for Space, in the Rwandan Urban Context; Conclusion; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84701-105-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-20117-X
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781782043416
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781782043416/type/BOOK
