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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Land expropriation"”.
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The effect of land expropriation without compensation on mortgagees
Expropriating land without compensation is an old notion that has been in the South African legal system. The colonial history of South Africa must be considered to better understanding of the origin of this phenomenon. Through colonial and apartheid governments, most whites were able to gain …
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Globalization, land expropriation, and community resistance: a case study in Wanbao community, Miaoli County, Taiwan
The Land Expropriation Act of Taiwan, enacted in the year 2000, has been abused by the local authorities without proper oversight from the public, and this abuse has often caused displacements without reasonable compensation. The abuse of land expropriation can be devastating to those who live in …
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China Dispossession Watch: Making Visible the Human Costs of Forced Land Expropriation in Urbanizing China
This thesis critically examines China's land expropriation regime through a mixed-methods approach that integrates ethnographic investigation, quantitative economic analysis, and practical interventions developed in collaboration with affected communities. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the …
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Framing land expropriation: a comparative content analysis of SABC and eNCA's coverage of the LEWC public hearings
… on amending Section 25 of the Constitution for land expropriation without compensation, a deeply political issue in post- apartheid South Africa. Using thematic content analysis of YouTube news bulletins, the study identifies each channel's framing techniques and dominant themes. Findings reveal …
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Resistance to state-driven land expropriation in northern Uganda: Counter-hegemonic imagination and the reconstruction of identity, authority, territory, and property
… political action in response to state-driven land expropriation in the Acholi-Madi border region of northern Uganda. Based on a two-year period of archival inquiry, interviews, activist research and participant observation, the dissertation examines the case of Apaa, where a large-scale …
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Mandated to Report: The Role of the Nationalist Press in Reporting Zionist Land Expropriation and Labor Conquest in Palestine During the 1930s
… in the coverage of Zionist activities like land theft and “labor conquest”. Furthermore, as Palestine became the workshop for new ideas from Europe – in particular, Communism, what did these established elites have to say about those writing on class struggle and the overthrow of antiquated …
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A comparative analysis of perceptions on land expropration by commercial and emerging farmers in Limpopo Province of South Africa
The land reform programme has been very slow in achieving its goal. The slow process of the land reform program has led to the initiation of the Land expropriation in line with Section 25 of the South African Constitution. The purpose of the Land Expropriation Act is to expedite the process of …
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A Socio-Environmental History of Dispossession and Displacement in the Zimunya, Marange and Bvumba (Chirara) Communities of Eastern Zimbabwe, 1920s - 2015
… Historians have long emphasized that massive land expropriation and forced dislocations in Africa were a consequence of colonial rule. While this is true, this research recognizes that dispossession and forced dislocations long predated colonialism. It demonstrates that land expropriation and …
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Agrarian reform and rural development : a case study of Brazil.
… in Brazil, which is a neoclassical approach to land reform focusing on negotiated land redistribution techniques, agricultural efficiency, and rural development. Past state-led attempts at agrarian reform in the country had been criticized for focusing mainly on land expropriation and …
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African palm and Afro-indigenous resistance: Race and dispossession of Garifuna lands on Honduras' northern coast
… and dispossessing Garífuna from lands valued for African palm production, and finally how the Garífuna have been able to effectively resist the state’s attempts to take Garífuna lands by force. One company in particular, the Dinant Corporation, poses the greatest threat to …
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The hidden activism : media practices and the media opportunity in Chinese politics of resistance
… in 2011, which was a local protest against land expropriation, illustrates the essence of non-adversarial resistance in a confrontational incident. Wukan protesters' media practices helped them take advantage of the opportunity structure. The second case examines how New Workers Art Group …
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Three Essays on the Land Property Rights Reform in China
… includes three essays exploring topics to land property rights reform in China. In the first chapter, co-authored with Pinghan Liang, we examine the effect of decollectivization reform in rural China after 1978 on cultural public goods provision. A staggered difference-in-differences model …
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The Politics of Protest and State Repression in Authoritarian Regimes
… Additional evidence also indicates that land expropriation by local governments has become the main source of social grievance in contemporary China. Second, I show that mobilization behaviors and state responses are intrinsically interdependent to each other. I propose a network method …
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Accessing land in the city s peri-urban areas: The case of Lilongwe, Malawi
Land access is arguably key to the attainment of sustainable urbanisation and development. Studies show that high urbanisation rates have resulted in a high demand for serviced land and housing in the face of a slow rates of formal provision of the same. This is particularly true in Lilongwe's …
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Increasing social equity in transport planning: a case study in Fortaleza, Brazil
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