Kastom, property and ideology: Land transformations in Melanesia
Kastom, property and ideology: Land transformations in Melanesia
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- State, society and governance in Melanesia .
- State, society and governance in Melanesia (Series) .
Includes bibliographical references.
Powers of exclusion in Melanesia -- Urban Melanesia: the challenges of managing land, modernity and tradition -- Urban land in Solomon Islands: powers of exclusion and counter-exclusion -- "There's nothing better than land": a migrant group's strategies for accessing informal settlement land in Port Moresby -- Inform land markets in Papua New Guinea -- The formation of a land grab policy network in Papua New Guinea -- Oil palm development and large-scale land acquisitions in Papua New Guinea -- The political ramifications of Papua New Guinea's commission of inquiry -- Urban land grabbing by political elites: exploring the political economy of land and the challenges of regulation -- Making the invisible seen: putting women's rights on Vanuatu's land reform agenda -- From colonial intrusions to "intimate exclusions": contesting legal title and 'chiefly title' to land to Epi, Vanuatu -- Landownership as exclusion -- The politics of property: gender, land and political authority in Solomon Islands -- Afterword: land transformations and exclusion across regions.
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.
English.
9781760461065 1760461067 9781760461058 1760461059
10.22459/KPI.03.2017 doi
22573/ctt1pz7jn4 JSTOR
Land use, Urban--Melanesia.
Land tenure--Melanesia.
Land reform--Political aspects--Melanesia.
Religion and culture--Melanesia.
Australasia, Oceania and other land areas.
Human rights.
Land rights.
Melanesia.
Oceania.
Political control and freedoms.
Politics and government.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Social Science.
Political Science / Human Rights.
Land reform--Political aspects.
Land tenure.
Land use, Urban.
Manners and customs.
Religion and culture.
Melanesia--Religious life and customs.
Melanesia--Social life and customs.
Melanesia.
Australian
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HD1120.9.Z7 / K38 2017eb
333.73/130995
Includes bibliographical references.
Powers of exclusion in Melanesia -- Urban Melanesia: the challenges of managing land, modernity and tradition -- Urban land in Solomon Islands: powers of exclusion and counter-exclusion -- "There's nothing better than land": a migrant group's strategies for accessing informal settlement land in Port Moresby -- Inform land markets in Papua New Guinea -- The formation of a land grab policy network in Papua New Guinea -- Oil palm development and large-scale land acquisitions in Papua New Guinea -- The political ramifications of Papua New Guinea's commission of inquiry -- Urban land grabbing by political elites: exploring the political economy of land and the challenges of regulation -- Making the invisible seen: putting women's rights on Vanuatu's land reform agenda -- From colonial intrusions to "intimate exclusions": contesting legal title and 'chiefly title' to land to Epi, Vanuatu -- Landownership as exclusion -- The politics of property: gender, land and political authority in Solomon Islands -- Afterword: land transformations and exclusion across regions.
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.
English.
9781760461065 1760461067 9781760461058 1760461059
10.22459/KPI.03.2017 doi
22573/ctt1pz7jn4 JSTOR
Land use, Urban--Melanesia.
Land tenure--Melanesia.
Land reform--Political aspects--Melanesia.
Religion and culture--Melanesia.
Australasia, Oceania and other land areas.
Human rights.
Land rights.
Melanesia.
Oceania.
Political control and freedoms.
Politics and government.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Social Science.
Political Science / Human Rights.
Land reform--Political aspects.
Land tenure.
Land use, Urban.
Manners and customs.
Religion and culture.
Melanesia--Religious life and customs.
Melanesia--Social life and customs.
Melanesia.
Australian
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HD1120.9.Z7 / K38 2017eb
333.73/130995