The struggle over land in Africa : conflicts, politics & change / edited by Ward Anseeuw & Chris Alden. - xii, 289 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The struggle over land in Africa: conflicts, politics and change / Ward Anseeuw and Chris Alden -- Theme 1: Ethnic and indigenous land conflicts. 'Indigenous' land claims in Kenya: A case study of Chebyuk, Mount Elgon District / Claire Médard -- Shades of grey: post-conflict land policy reform in the Great Lakes Region / Chris Huggins -- Theme 2: Between 'traditionalism and modernity': insecurity, privatisation and marginalization. The politics of communal tenure reform: A South African case study / Ben Cousins -- Karal land: Family cultural patrimony or a commercialised product on the Diamaré Plain? / Bernard Gonné -- Theme 3: Renewed land interests, land use, and conflicts. The conflicting distribution of tourism revenue as an example of insecure land tenure in Namibian communal lands / Renaud Lapeyre -- Land rights and enclosures: Implementing the Mozambican Land Law in practice / Christopher Tanner -- Biodiversity conservation against small-scale farming? Scientific evidences and emergence of new types of land crises / Catherine E Laurent -- Theme 4: State building, politics and land. The role of land as a site and source of conflict in Angola / Jenny Clover -- Two cycles of land policy in South Africa: tracing the contours / Ruth Hall -- A legal analysis of the Namibian commercial agricultural land reform process / Willem Adriaan Odendaal -- Theme 5: Land policy development, planning and (non- )inclusiveness. The Ituri paradox: when armed groups have a land policy and peacemakers do not / Thierry Vircoulon -- Understanding urban planning approaches in Tanzania: A historical transition analysis for urban sustainability / Wakuru Magigi -- Theme 6: Regional scopes of land conflicts and changing norms. The Zimbabwe crisis, land reform and normalisation / Sam Moyo -- Regionalisation of norms and the impact of narratives on southern African land policies / Chris Alden and Ward Anseeuw.

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Land use--Africa.
Land use--Government policy--Africa.
Land reform--Africa.
Land tenure--Political aspects--Africa.

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