Transformations on the Ground

Space and the Power of Land in Botswana

Anne Griffiths (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

206 Seiten

2019
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-04357-3 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	05.11.2018
Reihe/Serie	Framing the Global
Zusatzinfo	9 b&w illus.
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	290 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-253-04357-3 / 0253043573
ISBN-13	978-0-253-04357-3 / 9780253043573
Zustand	Neuware