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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Customary rights"”.
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Isiko Lehlathi 'The Customary Rights of the Forest': Unearthing the True Nature of Botanical Gardens
… contribution that has shaped Isiko Lehlathi (customary rites of the forest), the main goal is to re-enact the participatory activities, and interactions through design, which used to exist between people and nature. This is an attempt to break the colonial rigour to develop inclusive cultural …
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From use to law: the judicial recognition of community customary rights in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
… established by community praxis, creates legal rights over land that inure to the fluctuating members of local communities. The thesis of the submitted works, to paraphrase E.P. Thompson, is that custom litigation lies at the interface between law and community praxis. Customary rights are …
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New media and civil society : a study of Native Customary Rights (NCR) Land and Community-based Organisations (CBOs) in Sarawak, Malaysia
… where individuals exercise their freedom and rights through voluntary, independent associations. Spurred by world political events, the discourse of civil society shifted to a democratising mission against the tyranny of the state. It was also during the 1980s in Malaysia, middle-class …
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Rights without law: The role of privileges in convict rehabilitation in early colonial New South Wales (1788-1819)
… from 1788 until 1819. Privileges were special rights and benefits granted by the Crown to its subjects. They included pardoning a convict from serving the balance of their sentence. The Crown hoped that granting such privileges would help transform the convicts it sent to New South Wales into …
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Wearing an amulet: Land titling and tenure (in) security in Tanzania
… land reform process promoted formalisation of customary land rights as a means to tenure security for the citizens. This ethnography found that possession of a land title does not guarantee tenure security; when land held under customary rights is allocated by the state for investors or …
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Reclaiming Indigenous Land and Livelihoods in North-East Cambodia
… including the Indigenous populations that hold customary rights to these landscapes. In North-East Cambodia, the state has exerted its authority and control over resources and lands by zoning customary lands as protected areas or by granting land concessions to plantation companies. Conservation …
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Reclaiming Indigenous Land and Livelihoods in North-East Cambodia
… including the Indigenous populations that hold customary rights to these landscapes. In North-East Cambodia, the state has exerted its authority and control over resources and lands by zoning customary lands as protected areas or by granting land concessions to plantation companies. Conservation …
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The status, rights and treatment of persons with disabilities within customary legal frameworks in Uganda: A study of Mukono District
This thesis addresses the question: How do customary legal frameworks impact the status, rights and treatment of persons with disabilities? It is motivated by two underlying premises. First, customary legal frameworks are highly consequential in Sub-Saharan contexts. Second, human impairments are …
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Does the law on civil combat immunity strike a justifiable balance between the interests of the state and those of service personnel in the armed forces?
… definition of 'national security', from the customary rights of the individual to seek compensation for injury. This thesis will trace the development of the law, examining the issues which the judiciary, in particular, have faced. It will critically evaluate whether the methods of …
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Recovering Requeche and Classifying Clasificadores: An Ethnography of Hygienic Enclosure and Montevideo’s Waste Commons
… use/ access rather than exchange/ ownership; the customary rights which are claimed by vulnerable subjects; and the provision of a refuge from wage labour. A central disciplinary contribution is forged by combining a renewed ethnographic interest in the commons with a historical perspective and …
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Nutritional and toxicological studies on New Zealand mutton bird meat (Puffinus griseus) : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science at Lincoln University
… annually harvested by Maori according to the customary rights agreement set by Treaty of Waitangi.NZ mutton birds also called Sooty Shearwaters are noted for their high proportion of body fat.These birds are interesting since its sole diet is based on krill and other small marine organisms …
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Kaitiakitanga o te Taiao - Reconciling Legislative Provisions and Outcomes for Māori
… also for its recognition of First Nations’ rights and values. This includes directing decision-makers to recognise and provide for the relationship of Māori and their culture and traditions with their ancestral lands, waters and treasured resources, to have particular regard to Māori …