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My Land My Life - Dispossession at the Frontier of Desire
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My Land My Life - Dispossession at the Frontier of Desire
Series: Pacific Islands Monograph Series
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Throughout Oceania, land is central to identity because it is
understood to be spiritually nourishing and sustaining. Land is the
mother. Land, and the kinship it nurtures, is the basis for
sustaining livelihoods and ways of life. Therefore, Indigenous
dispossession from the land has deep and far-reaching consequences.
My Land My Life: Dispossession at the Frontier of Desire explores
the land rush that took place in Vanuatu from 2001 to 2014 which
resulted in over ten percent of all customary land being leased. In
this book, Siobhan McDonnell offers new insights into the drivers
of capitalist land transformations. Using multi-scalar and
multi-sited ethnography she describes not simply a linear march
toward commodification of the landscape by foreign interests, but a
complex web replete with the local powerful Indigenous men involved
in manipulating power and property. McDonnell meticulously
describes land-leasing processes and maps the relationships between
investors, middlemen, and local men. She shows how property is a
tool with which foreigners reassert capitalism and neocolonial
control over Indigenous landscapes. The legal identity of
"landowner" contains foundational contradictions between the rights
established in Vanuatu’s kastom system and those afforded by
property, as individualized rights over land. Property has also
created sites for the production of masculine authority and enabled
men to manipulate claims to land and entrench their personal power.
This book explores how transactions of customary land have created
new domains of agency and frontiers of desire: foreign desire to
possess land and local desire to lease land for cash. It concludes
with a discussion of Vanuatu’s constitutional and land reform
package, drafted by the author, which took effect in 2014 and
delivered a more empathetic approach to Indigenous land rights and
ended the land rush. Informed by decades of study, legal work, and
community engagement, My Land My Life demonstrates an engaged
anthropological practice based on reciprocity that responds
directly to what Indigenous people have asked for. This book is
certain to appeal to a wide range of scholars as well as policy
makers.
General
Imprint: |
University of Hawaii Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Pacific Islands Monograph Series |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
Authors: |
Siobhan Mcdonnell
• Tarcisius Kabutaulaka
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Dimensions: |
235 x 156mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
277 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8248-9445-0 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8248-9445-6 |
Barcode: |
9780824894450 |
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