Local Case Studies in African Land Law
Title | Local Case Studies in African Land Law PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Home (Prof.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Land reform |
ISBN | 9789205380193 |
Local case studies in African land law
Title | Local case studies in African land law PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Home |
Publisher | PULP |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. Jurisprudence |
ISBN | 1920538011 |
Land Law and Land Ownership in Africa
Title | Land Law and Land Ownership in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Debusmann |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Land tenure |
ISBN |
Land Law and Land Ownership in Africa
Title | Land Law and Land Ownership in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Debusmann |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Land tenure |
ISBN |
The State and the Paradox of Customary Law in Africa
Title | The State and the Paradox of Customary Law in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Olaf Zenker |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 395 |
Release | 2018-02-02 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1317014790 |
Customary law and traditional authorities continue to play highly complex and contested roles in contemporary African states. Reversing the common preoccupation with studying the impact of the post/colonial state on customary regimes, this volume analyses how the interactions between state and non-state normative orders have shaped the everyday practices of the state. It argues that, in their daily work, local officials are confronted with a paradox of customary law: operating under politico-legal pluralism and limited state capacity, bureaucrats must often, paradoxically, deal with custom – even though the form and logic of customary rule is not easily compatible and frequently incommensurable with the form and logic of the state – in order to do their work as a state. Given the self-contradictory nature of this endeavour, officials end up processing, rather than solving, this paradox in multiple, inconsistent and piecemeal ways. Assembling inventive case studies on state-driven land reforms in South Africa and Tanzania, the police in Mozambique, witchcraft in southern Sudan, constitutional reform in South Sudan, Guinea’s long durée of changing state engagements with custom, and hybrid political orders in Somaliland, this volume offers important insights into the divergent strategies used by African officials in handling this paradox of customary law and, somehow, getting their work done.
Essays in African Land Law
Title | Essays in African Land Law PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Home (College teacher) |
Publisher | PULP |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Customary law |
ISBN | 1920538003 |
Local Land Law and Globalization
Title | Local Land Law and Globalization PDF eBook |
Author | Gordon R. Woodman |
Publisher | Lit Verlag |
Pages | 426 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |
This book is a study of the effects of global influences on local activity in relation to the land laws in some urban and peri-urban localities in three African countries. It begins with a theoretical consideration of the concept of globalization and of the way in which it may inform research in the social scientific study of law. The three chapters which form the core of the book are detailed, empirical studies of the effects of globalizing processes on the living land laws observed in selected communities in Benin, Ghana and Tanzania. The last chapter consists of some comparative conclusions. The study is part of the interdisciplinary research program on "Local Action in Africa in the Context of Global Influences" (Humanities Collaborative Research Centre, SFB/FK 560) at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.