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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"land politics"”.
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Land, politics and religion on the Clancarty estate, east Galway, 1851–1914
Studies of landed estates are important for understanding not just the life of the landlords, but also for assessing the social history of the community resident on estates. This thesis expands upon existing knowledge regarding landlordism in Ireland, with its focus being land, politics and …
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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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A Kenyan Revolution: Mau Mau, Land, Women, and Nation.
… what became known as Mau Mau, led by the Kenya Land Freedom Army. During this time, the British colonial government imposed laws limiting their access to land, politics, and independence. The turbulent 1950s in Kenyan history should be considered a revolution because of its violent nature, the …
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Diasporic identities, autochthonous rights: race, gender, and the cultural politics of Creole land rights in Nicaragua
… from the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua engage the politics of femininity and masculinity, indigeneity and blackness, tradition and modernity, and autochthony and diaspora in their struggles for communal land rights. The historical part of the project examines successive waves of mobilization within …
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Reconfiguring racial regimes of ownership: vacancy and the labor of revitalization on Chicago's South Side
… one front, seeks ways to efficiently revalorize land and, on another, casts vacancy as an opportunity to promote equitable redevelopment through community-centered revitalization. This dissertation finds that these initiatives mobilize conditional property to enroll residents’ unpaid labor in the …
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Village properties, state negotiations: Decentralization and territorialization of Senegal's forests
In the last two decades, legal reforms and development projects in Senegal have purported to transfer authority over thousands of hectares of forests, pastures, and fisheries from state agencies to local elected councils, customary chiefs, and user committees. Yet in addition to transferring …
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The decentralisation of education in a developing country: the case of community high schools in Solomon Islands
… (CHSs) in a developing country - Solomon Islands. The study examines, in particular, the local and global forces which have influenced the establishment of CHSs and the factors which may be facilitating or impeding their development at the level of implementation. A major interest of the …