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OverviewIndigenous peoples and governments, industrialists and ecologists all use - or have at some stage to confront - the language of land rights. That language raises as many questions as it answers. Rights of the land or rights to the land? Rights of the individual or rights of the community? Even accepting that such rights exist, how to arbitrate between competing claims to land? Spanning as they do a wide range of intellectual territory, and their spheres of interest or activity ranging geographically from the Niger Delta to Papua New Guinea, from Quebec to the Eastern Cape, the contributors to this volume move across a range of different, and at times contradictory, approaches to land rights. Marilyn Strathern explores the divergent anthropologies of land, specifically regarding the equation of land and property. Cree lawyer and spokesman Romeo Saganash and Frank Brennan, an Australian lawyer and priest, explore the legal framework for land claims. The UN's International Decade of the Rights of Indigenous People recently ended in the failure of negotiating govemnents to accommodate, within international law, a 'collective' right to land. It is only by acknowledging this collective right to self-determination, both argue, that governments can come to terms with their indigenous populations and their own colonial past. Against the pleas of Brennan and Saganash, the Kenyan Richard Leakey, whose own history and politics is indissociable from that past, questions the whole notion of 'indigeneity'. The campaigner Ken Wiwa speaks too of the difficulties of redressing historical injusticeis, especially in a region - the Niger Delta - where the indigenous Ogoni have no written record of their losses. Finally William Beinart, a historian and advisor to the South African government, outlines some of the practical difficulties of land reform in that country. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Timothy Chesters (Lecturer in Modern Languages, Royal Holloway, University of London)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 19.60cm Weight: 0.182kg ISBN: 9780199545100ISBN 10: 0199545103 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 15 January 2009 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPreface Contributors TIMOTHY CHESTERS: Introduction 1: MARILYN STRATHERN: Land: Intangible or Tangible Property? LAURA RIVAL: Response to Marilyn Strathern 2: ROMEO SAGANASH: Indigenous Peoples and International Human Rights ELLEN L. LUTZ: Response to Romeo Saganash 3: FRANK BRENNAN: Standing in Deep Time; Standing in the Law MARCUS COLCHESTER: Response to Frank Brennan 4: KEN WIWA: If this is your land, where are your stories? ADAM HIGAZI: Response to Ken Wiwa 5: RICHARD LEAKEY: Whose world is it anyway? LOTTE HUGHES: Response to Richard Leakey 6: WILLIAM BEINART: Land Reform in the Eastern Cape: An Argument against RecommunalisationReviews`Review from previous edition All good citizens should probably want to buy them . . . simply because they are published in support of such a good cause. It turns out, though, that no self-sacrifice is involved. [These] are immensely rich, challenging, stimulating volumes . . . The contributors' lists are star-studded . . . and each book has a clear, coherent, overarching theme, despite the extreme diversity of the individual lectures'' The Independent Review from previous edition All good citizens should probably want to buy them ... simply because they are published in support of such a good cause. It turns out, though, that no self-sacrifice is involved. [These] are immensely rich, challenging, stimulating volumes ... The contributors' lists are star-studded ... and each book has a clear, coherent, overarching theme, despite the extreme diversity of the individual lectures' The Independent Author InformationTimothy Chesters is a lecturer in the School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of several articles on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century French literature and thought. He is currently writing a book on ghosts and apparitions in early modern France. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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