Transformations on the Ground (eBook)

Space and the Power of Land in Botswana

Anne Griffiths (Autor)

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2019
206 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-04358-0 (ISBN)

Infos

In Botswana's struggle to access international economies, few resources are as fundamental and fraught as control over land. Land, Power, and the Global considers the ways in which power in all its forms—local, international, legal, familial—affects the collision of global with local concerns over access to land and control over its use.

1. With new attention being paid to issues of transitional justice and ethical humanitarian issues, legal anthropology is becoming an increasingly important and relevant area of research which can influence and find audiences among many different fields of study.

2. Anne Griffiths is a senior scholar of the anthropology of law. She has co-authored and co-edited a number of books and articles and has an extensive network of colleagues with whom she has collaborated on projects. Her work is very well received by other scholars in legal anthropology, sociology, and African studies.

3. This research is a grounded and person-focused approach to the study of global processes.

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Transformations on the Ground considers the ways in which power in all its forms—local, international, legal, familial—affects the collision of global with local concerns over access to land and control over its use. In Botswana's struggle to access international economies, few resources are as fundamental and fraught as control over land. On a local level, land and control over its use provides homes, livelihoods, and the economic security to help lift populations out of impoverishment. Yet on the international level, global capital concerns compete with strategies for sustainable development and economic empowerment. Drawing on extensive archival research, legal records, fieldwork, and interviews with five generations of family members in the village of Molepolole, Anne M. O. Griffiths provides a sweeping consideration of the scale of power from global economy to household experience in Botswana. In doing so, Griffiths provides a frame through which the connections between legal power and local engagement can provide fresh insight into our understanding of the global.

Autor

Anne M. O. Griffiths before retirement held the personal chair in Anthropology of Law at the School of Law, Edinburgh University. Her research focuses on anthropology of law, comparative and family law, African law, gender, culture and rights. She is the author of In the Shadow of Marriage: Gender and Justice in an African Community.

Inhalt

Preface

Introduction

Section I: Historical Dimensions of Land in Botswana: Contemporary Entanglements

1. The International Landscape and its Influence on Land in Botswana

2. Reframing the Governance of Land

3. Institutional Frameworks and Governance

Section II: The Bottom Up Impact of Land on Diverging Family Lifeworlds and Gender Relations

4. Families, Networks and Status

5. Transformations on the Ground

Section III: Law and Space: Negotiating Legal Plurality in Botswana

6. Negotiating Conflict: The Handling of Disputes in the Land Tribunal

7. Constructing Legality in the High Court and Court of Appeal

Final Reflections

Appendix

Bibliography

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.8.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Framing the Global
• Reihe/Serie: Framing the Global
• Reihe/Serie: Framing the Global
• Zusatzinfo: 9 b&w illus.
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Administration • administration of land • Africa • Anthropology • Anthropology of law • Botswana • Control • Family • Gender • Gender Relations • Global Economy • Global Power • House • Household • Influence • Kweneng Land Board • Land • Land Administration • land tribunal • land use • Land-use • Legal Anthropology • legal forums • lifeworld • Molepolole • Networks • Power • Research • The Global • Tribunal • Women
• ISBN-10: 0-253-04358-1 / 0253043581
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-04358-0 / 9780253043580