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Women, Land and Justice in Tanzania (Hardcover)
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Women, Land and Justice in Tanzania (Hardcover)
Series: Eastern Africa Series
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Reveals the impact of Tanzania's land law reforms and the ways in
which women's rights to land ownership have been overridden in
spite of law. Recent decades have seen a wave of land law reforms
across Africa, in the context of a "land rush" and land-grabbing.
But how has this been enacted on the ground and, in particular, how
have women experienced this? This book seeksto re-orientate current
debates on women's land rights towards a focus on the law in
action. Drawing on the author's ethnographic research in the Arusha
region of Tanzania, it explores how the country's land law reforms
have impacted on women's legal claims to land. Centring on cases
involving women litigants, the book considers the extent to which
women are realising their interests in land through land courts and
follows the progression of women's claims to land - from their
social origins through processes of dispute resolution to judgment.
Dancer's work explores three central issues. First, it considers
the nature of women's claims to land in Tanzanian family
contexts,the value of land in an era of land reform and the 'land
rush' across Africa, and the extent to which the social issues
raised are addressed by Tanzania's current laws and legal system.
Secondly, it examines how agency and power relations between social
and legal actors engaged in legal processes affect women's access
to justice and the progression of claims. Thirdly, it explores
Tanzanian concepts of justice and rights and how women's claims
have been judged by land courts in practice. Helen Dancer is a
lecturer in Law at the University of Brighton. She practised as a
barrister in England specialising in family legal aid cases prior
to training as a legal anthropologist. She is also a consultant for
Future Agricultures at IDS, University of Sussex. Her areas of
research interest include law and development, gender and land, and
human rights and legal pluralism.
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