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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"land claims"”.
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Land Claims and Liberal Modes of Governance: An Analysis of Post-Comprehensive Land Claims Institutions in Canada
… lens to the Comprehensive Land Claims (CLC) regime of governance in Canada. More specifically, I engage an interpretative-empirical analysis of the Nunavut Land Claim and to a lesser extent the Algonquin Agreement in Principle. The object of my research is to add to …
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Deal? Or No Deal? Explaining Comprehensive Land Claims Negotiation Outcomes in Canada
… government created the federal comprehensive land claims process to negotiate modern treaties with Aboriginal peoples in Canada. Despite 35 years of negotiations, many Aboriginal groups have failed to complete modern treaties. This dissertation explains why some Aboriginal groups have been …
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Spirit of the land : politics, memory, and the sacred in South African land claims
… role of sacred space in people's attachment to land, analysing the ways in which people create sacred space through labour, ritual, myth, and memory. Three case studies explore the human interpretation of the sacred through the history and politics of land acquisition and dispossession. While …
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Cultural diversity and indigenous peoples' land claims: argumentative dynamics and jurisprudential approach in the Americas
… special relationship with their traditional lands has been identified as the main objective characteristic that sustains their claims for cultural distinctiveness and differential legal treatment. Then, Chapters V and VI refer to a critical legal analysis of the jurisprudence of the …
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Enclosed Edens, Contested Waters & Failed Utopias: An Ecocritical Reading of Epistemic Land Claims in Okanagan Literature
… Utopias: an Ecocritical Reading of Epistemic Land Claims in Okanagan Literature, examines regionally specific literary sites of intersection, conflict and transformation. Focusing on the Okanagan region, which rests in the southern heart of British Columbia and remains the unceded territory of …
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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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A Socio-Political History of Griqua Women in Griqualand East, c. 1950 – 2005
… of their time. Although the East Griqualand Pioneers Council (EGPC) emerged as the leading organisation in Griqualand East between 1950 and 2000 and became known for its role in land claims and Griqua identity, this thesis argues that Griqua women who were often marginalised in official …
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Navigating Land Rights Institutions in the Greater Accra Region of Southern Ghana: An Actor Network Theory Approach
… in developing countries. Through a case study of land institutions and reform in the Greater Accra Region of Southern Ghana this thesis examines the complexities of overlapping and often contradictory land tenure regimes. Actor Network Theory is used to analyze the role of the various actors, …
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Reclaiming Indigenous Land and Livelihoods in North-East Cambodia
Cambodia's upland regions are currently sites of contest and conflict over land between diverse actors, 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 …
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Reclaiming Indigenous Land and Livelihoods in North-East Cambodia
Cambodia's upland regions are currently sites of contest and conflict over land between diverse actors, 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 …
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Kat River revisited
… on them, and their involvement in current land claims issues. This dissertation seeks to redress these lacunae and provide information from "the underside" on the Kat River Rebellion of 1851-1853. In order to accomplish this, between 2011 and 2016 the author interviewed, with their consent, …
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The effect of land restitution on protected areas : an analysis of the co-management model in operation at the Mkambati Nature Reserve
… and having been faced with a huge number of land claims on protected areas, the South African Government adopted a co-management system as a way of informing the settlement of land claims lodged within protected areas. Through a case study of the Mkambati Nature Reserve (MNR) in the Eastern …
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An evaluation of urban and rural land use change, conflict and competition
This study set out to evaluate the extent of land use change, competition and conflict in Polokwane city and in selected land restitution areas of Limpopo province. The methods of data collection and analysis included document analysis, triangulation of quantitative and qualitative survey methods, …
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Capitalism and private nature reserves: the taming of Mala Mala land claim
… expose its callous nature. In South Africa, land restitution calls into question capitalism's operation as it disrupts the conventional process of profit accumulation. This is evident when looking at the manner in which land claims are settled in private nature reserves that are under a land …
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The Political Entanglements of Recognition: Aboriginal Title, Crown Sovereignty, and Indigenous Self Determination
… in Canada. Indigenous Nations across Turtle Island have questioned to what degree Canada "owns" their lands, and have done so in a myriad of ways. Primarily, I centre my critical analysis on Canada’s land claims policy regime and its relationship to the Supreme Court of Canada's jurisprudence …
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Exploring Indonesia's Capital City Relocation As a Model for Multidimensional Conflict Resolution
… observation, document analysis, survey data, land-use/land-cover change assessment, and Soft Systems Methodology (SSM). SSM tools, including rich picture analysis, CATWOE, Root Definition, a Conceptual Activity Model, and 3E indicators, were employed to compare normative governance assumptions …
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Crossing the Racial Hiring Divide in Public Education: First Nation Teachers Encounters with Employee Fit, Merit, and White Racial Innocence
… of First Nations rights include recent land claims agreements and self-government agreements, employment equity policy and staffing protocol. In contrast to these statements of legal equality, this study examines the ways in which hiring challenges encountered by First Nations …
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"One Tricky Coyote": The fiction of Thomas King
… beliefs and customs; the significance of the land to First Nations' cultures: and the politics of land claims. By locating King's novels in historical, political, and cultural sites, this thesis underscores the importance of recognizing race and ethnicity in analyses of Aboriginal texts.
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Hul'qumi'num peoples in the Gulf Islands: re-storying the Coast Salish landscape
… Hul’qumi’num peoples to “re-story” a colonized landscape in the southern Gulf Islands archipelago east of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Collaborative research undertaken with the Hul’qumi’num-Gulf Islands National Park Reserve Committee is part of a long-term and practical effort to regain …
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