The Politics of Possession

The Politics of Possession
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224
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9781405196567
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Книги издательства Willey

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?When people or states assert control over land and its resources, how do they justify their claims? Cases in this original collection link competitive claims to a fractured politics. Its overarching analysis linking property claims with political legitimacy– and plurality of both linked to conflict – provides an important framework that is as good to contemplate at the most local setting as it is to the most global.? James Fairhead, University of Sussex ?Who gets to determine the legitimacy of claims and rights over property and resources? Any answer to this question must be sensitive to the varied forms by which societies organize and institutionalise access to and control over resources whether this be among peasant communities in Indonesia forests or in the slumworld of Mumbai or Lagos. But equally important is a full accounting of the forms of authority by which rights are conferred and relatedly how these forms of authority have limits and are...

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