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The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution - 'Restoring What Was Ours' (Paperback)
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The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution - 'Restoring What Was Ours' (Paperback)
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The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution: 'Restoring What Was
Ours' offers a critical, comparative ethnographic, examination of
land restitution programs. Drawing on memories and histories of
past dispossession, governments, NGOs, informal movements and
individual claimants worldwide have attempted to restore and
reclaim rights in land. Land restitution programs link the past and
the present, and may allow former landholders to reclaim lands
which provided the basis of earlier identities and livelihoods.
Restitution also has a moral weight that holds broad appeal; it is
represented as righting injustice and healing the injuries of
colonialism. Restitution may have unofficial purposes, like
establishing the legitimacy of a new regime, quelling popular
discontent, or attracting donor funds. It may produce unintended
consequences, transforming notions of property and ownership,
entrenching local bureaucracies, or replicating segregated patterns
of land use. It may also constitute new relations between states
and their subjects. Land-claiming communities may make new claims
on the state, but they may also find the state making unexpected
claims on their land and livelihoods. Restitution may be a route to
citizenship, but it may engender new or neo-traditional forms of
subjection. This volume explores these possibilities and pitfalls
by examining cases from the Americas, Eastern Europe, Australia and
South Africa. Addressing the practical and theoretical questions
that arise, The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution thereby
offers a critical rethinking of the links between land restitution
and property, social transition, injustice, citizenship, the state
and the market.
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