Author: University of the South Pacific. Institute of Pacific Studies
Publisher: [email protected]
ISBN: 9789820200128
Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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"Women's role in land matters was generally second to that of their menfolk - even in traditionally matrilineal societies. Christianity, commerce and centralized governmment led to some changes and further adaptation is in progress. This book of studies by women from two Melanesia societies (Fiji and Vanuatu) and three Polynesian (Tonga, Samoa and the Cook Islands) is the first to focus on this topic of growing importance to Pacific women."--Back cover.
Author: Tim Anderson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646532370
Category : Customary law
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This AID/WATCH publication presents Melanesian and Australian voices in defence of Melanesian customary land. The chapters touch on the broad themes of customary land in the region, as well as particular issues in Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu. Those issues include land tenure conversion, incorporated land groups, leases, the productive value of customary land, women and land, land tenure reform programs, and the social security features of traditional land tenure systems.
Author: Rebecca Monson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108844804
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 297
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Outlines how land disputes are entangled with gender, ethnicity and territoriality, shaping public authority and state formation.
Author: Aron Tambala Hekenai
Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN: 1543755755
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 75
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The book is focus in teaching younger generation the initial principles of land ownership that was practiced by the early inhabitance of the Melanesian race. Since land ownership issue is a caused to social unrest and losing of human life. The principle outlined intends to help land owners, land department, developer and justice department of Melanesian nations in dealing with land ownership issues in manner that is just and morale in principle as was used by the ancestors. That the principles layout become guide to identify land owners. By doing so will: • Lessen conflict that usually ends up in severe fight and many dead. • Rightful owners been neglected their traditional ownership rights • Help developers understanding people and culture in development • Pass on to younger generation the knowledge of the ancestors. • As a leisure reading material for school students and others interested.
Author: Toon van Meijl
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136177841
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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First Published in 1999. This book provides a critical analysis of the widespread assumption that the formalisation and standardisation of property rights through state legislation has a positive impact on economic development. It is based on anthropological case studies of land and natural resource rights in Southeast Asia and Oceania. These suggest that the economic impact of the formalisation of property rights is not necessarily positive, certainly not for all categories of peoples. They also suggest that state reform of property rights do not necessarily eliminate the conditions of legal pluralism, but rather add new legal structures to an already complex constellation of property rights and duties. The point of departure for the empirical analyses of the central hypothesis examined in this book is that the practical significance of complex forms of property rights and related socio-economic practices cannot be usefully examined within formalistic, one-dimensional and normatively oriented legalistic or economic approaches. Instead, an anthropoligical approach to law is advocated in order to analyse the complicated, multi-dimensional relationships between property rights and economic development, and their embeddedness in social practice. Based on this approach, the contributions to this book show how different people and institutions attribute different meanings to the various components of property relationships, and how they use them as resources in their everyday lives and social struggles.
Author: Siobhan McDonnell
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760461067
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 435
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The relationship between customary land tenure and ‘modern’ forms of landed property has been a major political issue in the ‘Spearhead’ states of Melanesia since the late colonial period, and is even more pressing today, as the region is subject to its own version of what is described in the international literature as a new ‘land rush’ or ‘land grab’ in developing countries. This volume aims to test the application of one particular theoretical framework to the Melanesian version of this phenomenon, which is the framework put forward by Derek Hall, Philip Hirsch and Tania Murray Li in their 2011 book, Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia. Since that framework emerged from studies of the agrarian transition in Southeast Asia, the key question addressed in this volume is whether ‘land transformations’ in Melanesia are proceeding in a similar direction, or whether they take a somewhat different form because of the particular nature of Melanesian political economies or social institutions. The contributors to this volume all deal with this question from the point of view of their own direct engagement with different aspects of the land policy process in particular countries. Aside from discussion of the agrarian transition in Melanesia, particular attention is also paid to the growing problem of land access in urban areas and the gendered nature of landed property relations in this region.
Author: Andrew Byrnes
Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat
ISBN: 9780850925159
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Guide to Human Rights Sources
Author: Hilary Lim
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135335044
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 325
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Feminist perambulations : taking the law for a walk in land / by Anne Bottomley and Hilary Lim -- National nature reserves : nature as other confined / by Sue Elworthy -- Ancient monuments of national importance : symbols of whose past? / by Penny English -- A trip to the mall : revisiting the public/private divide / by Anne Bottomley -- Scapegoating and the legal landscape : homeless women and the law / by Rosy Thornton -- Women's work : locating gender in the discourse of anti-social behaviour / by Helen Carr -- Women travellers and the paradox of the settled nomad / by Margaret Greenfields and Robert Home -- 'Land doesn't come from your mother, she didn't make it with her hands?' : challenging matriliny in Papua New Guinea / by Melissa Demian -- Unfair shares for women : the rhetoric of equality and the reality of inequality / by Rosemary Auchmuty -- The shared home : a rational solution through statutory reform? / by Simone Wong -- Networking resources : a gendered perspective on Kwena women's property rights / by Anne Griffiths -- Accidental Islamic feminism : dialogical approaches to muslim women's inheritance rights / by Hilary Lim and Siraj Sait.
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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 1630
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Author: Cheuk-Yuet Ho
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498506844
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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Neo-Socialist Property Rights: The Predicament of Housing Ownership in China examines how urban dwellers’ practices of acquiring and defending property rights reshape state-property-family relationality in China. Ubiquitous housing ownership has emerged together with a pervasive yet particularized rights discourse and practice in the past two decades. Cheuk Yuet Ho considers them to be a condensation and vindication of the principles of family values and emergent “neo-socialist” governance. However, there are manifested and latent contradictions between rights as interests and rights as a moral principle. The book concludes that private property rights are at once enabling and disabling when understood in the light of both the rigorous pursuit of well-being in a market economy and the contestation by those who resist forced eviction or the infringement of owners’ rights. In this book, Ho provides rarely available ethnographic record of the encounters between evictees and evictors engaged in housing demolition and approaches the topic of urban housing ownership from the investing perspective in contrast to most anthropologists’ consumption-focus analysis. Neo-Socialist Property Rights links property rights practice to the broader human rights discourse as both a working hypothesis and a historical question.
