Kastom, Property And Ideology : Land Transformations In Melanesia
MCDONNELL Siobhan et al
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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 stu ...
Publication date: 2017-03-11
Number of pages: 434
Publisher: ANU Press
Subjects:
Non-fiction, Business / Law, Law, Property Law, Pasifika, Melanesia, Pacific Law
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