Gaining Ground? - Rights and Property in South African Land Reform (Paperback, New Ed)

Gaining Ground? Rights and Property in South African Land Reform examines how land reform policy and practice in post-apartheid South Africa have been produced and contested. Set in the province of Mpumalanga, the book gives an ethnographic account of local initiatives and conflicts, showing how the poorest sectors of the landless have defied the South African state's attempts to privatize land holdings and create a new class of African farmers. They insist that the 'rights-based' rather than the 'market-driven' version of land reform should prevail and that land restitution was intended to benefit all Africans. However their attempts to gain land access often backfire. Despite state assurances that land reform would benefit all, illegal land selling and 'brokering' are pervasive, representing one of the only feasible routes to land access by the poor. This book shows how human rights lawyers, NGOs and the state, in interaction with local communities, have tried to square these symbolic and economic claims on land. Winner of the inaugural Elliott P. Skinner Book Award of the Association of Africanist Anthropology, 2008

General

Imprint:	Routledge-Cavendish
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2006
First published:	2007
Authors:	Deborah James
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	282
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-42031-0
Categories:	Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Social law > General Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Private, property, family law > Property, real estate, land & tenancy law
LSN:	0-415-42031-8
Barcode:	9780415420310

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