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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Land dispossession"”.
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Does land dispossession equal impoverishment or liberation in rural China?: evidence from Zhejiang Province, China
Land has consistently been central when disentangling the complex picture of rural China. It is also considered to be the fundamental asset for Chinese farmers. Drawing on extensive literature review and qualitative data collected from several villages and various other institutions such as …
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LAND DISPOSSESSION AND JURIDICAL LAND DISPUTES OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN NORTHERN MEXICO: A STRUCTURAL DOMINATION APPROACH
ABSTRACT This thesis looks at land disputes and the dispossession of Rarámuri communities in northern Mexico by examining the way dominant groups shape the structural conditions for land appropriation and its perpetuation over time. This is pursued by exploring the link between the Rarámuri …
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"We are Refugees in Our Own Homeland": Land Dispossession and Resettlement Challenges in Post-Conflict Teso, Uganda
… Uganda from 2012-2013. It focuses primarily on land dispossession and challenges to resettlement. Conflicts over land intensified in the early 1990s, coinciding with the early stages of resettlement in southern Teso after a period of regional civil war and large-scale cattle rustling. In …
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Land dispossession and options for restitution and development: a case study of the Moletele Land Claim in Hoedspruit, Limpopo Province
… community to understand their experiences after dispossession and their perception of the restitution claim. Thirdly, a combination of desktop analysis and household interviews was employed to understand the socio-economic dynamics and evaluate the feasibility of the community's perceptions.
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Community development trusts: brokering property rights on ‘communal' land in the Richtersveld
… that property is mobilised to justify or resist dispossession. Colonial powers invoked problematic ideas of the property rights of indigenous people to justify land dispossession through trusts. The British empire was particularly well-versed in this, adopting a trusteeship model whereby …
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The controversy of land reform : a case of Mpangisa in Mid- Illovo
The present land distribution in South Africa emanated-from a history of land dispossession and racially rooted land legislation. The present state of agriculture is to a large extent influenced by present and past land policies of the Region. Colonial dispossession of land in Mpangisa began in the …
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Food as helper, food as healer: How Cree Elders incorporate food into their helping and healing practices and the implications for Indigenous food sovereignty
… traditional medicines, residential schools and land dispossession in the name of development. However, despite the challenges and interruptions to food and cultural systems, Cree Elders understand food to be sacred, and moreover, a healer. This qualitative study, grounded in Indigenous research …
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The neo-liberalisation of nature : contextualising the resolution of land claims in the Kruger National Park
… the unfortunate reality of forced removals and land dispossession. Ultimately landlessness created an unequal society in terms of land holding, use and ownership. Nature conservation was also not spared. The land reform program in South Africa more especially the land restitution in the Kruger …
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Understanding women's claim to land in an Eastern Cape Village
The history of land dispossession in South Africa affected communities in the former homelands in multiple ways. The laws used to implement policies of segregation and dispossession undermined the rights to land held by black South Africans living in the countryside. Women living in these …
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Land Access as Liberation: A Qualitative Study on Faith, Food, and Farming of Urban and Rural Black Land Stewards in the United States
… have held less than 2% of the nation's farmland, a direct result of race-based discriminatory policies embedded within federal, state, local, and county-level institutions (Daniel, 2013). Structural barriers—ranging from exclusionary lending practices by the U.S. Department of Agriculture …
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State Forest Management, Society and Environment in Eastern Highlands, Zimbabwe, c.1890-2023
… management in the plantation-rich Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe from 1890, when the country was colonised, to 2023, when the government adopted a new forestry policy. It examines how shifting political and economic policies have shaped state forest management, with a particular focus on …
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Land rights and land conflicts in Kibaale since the colonial settlement
… why there has been persistent conflict over land in Africa, with reference to Kibaale district in western Uganda. The land conflicts, especially in post-colonial sub-Saharan Africa, are attributed to such factors as the colonial legacy which has contributed to unequal access and conflicting …
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Communal identity and historical claims to land in South Africa : the cases of the Clarkson Moravian Mission and the Tsitsikamma Mfengu
… claims of entitlement to the Clarkson mission land. Their respective notions of communal identity are investigated, and the ways in which these are historically linked to land entitlement are examined. The analyses of the constructed communal identities of the "coloured" Clarksoner and the …
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Can planning, a tool for colonization, be decolonized? MIT’s funding at the expense of Indigenous Peoples through the Morrill Act
… role of planning in the colonization of Turtle Island by materializing and legitimizing the seizure of Indigenous Land through planning practices like urbanization, enclosure, the creation of Indian reservations, and tools like cartography, lawfare, and landscape architecture and design. I make an …
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Chemistry in a new key: Surplus, soy, and the history of sustainable enterprise in the United States, 1934-1950
… for raw material scarcity, for Dust Bowl land degradation, and for underemployment caused by the Great Depression and racial segregation after Civil War Reconstruction. Under the banner of this hard-to-pronounce neologism, automaker Henry Ford and soil scientist George Washington Carver …
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“Eles Deturpam o Que Tu És”: Coloniality, resistance, and the reconfiguration of colonial power in Quilombos of Amapá, Brazil
… on the state of Amapá – a critical borderland of Amazonian modernity. With a particular focus on Quilombos (formerly-enslaved Black settlements), it addresses the central argument that coloniality, understood as the enduring matrix of power, race, and knowledge established during the …
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Migrant sarifa settlements and state-Building in Iraq
… agitation, protest movements, demands for land and housing, and the 1958 anti-monarchic revolution that transformed the modern state of Iraq. By examining how governmental apparatuses were designed to manage land dispossession under the benevolent guise of urban development, this …
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Implementing the UNDRIP into the Province of British Columbia: The Impact of BC’s Declaration Act on Buck-Passing and Injustices of Misframing
… injustices of Indigenous sovereignty and land dispossession. Buck-passing is a government tactic that leverages the ambiguities within the division of powers between federal and provincial governments so as to blame some other level of government in attempt to escape moral blameworthiness …
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Tracing the Invisible Borders of Canadian Citizenship: Critical Analysis of Social Work with Noncitizens
… functioned not only to legitimize the violent land dispossession by Europeans but also as a mechanism to govern the internal lives of members of Canadian society, whereby whiteness, Britishness, and masculinity were defined as the ultimate standard of progress and orderliness. Early social work …
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Alternatives to the economic rationalisation of renewable energy transitions: the Tsitsikamma community renewable wind farm story
… on which the wind farm is built has a colonial land dispossession narrative and the return of the Tsitsikamma Mfengu community to reclaimed land in 1994. The community was a willing partner in the investment of a wind energy public-private partnership. While the beneficiaries were promised …
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