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• General background of the inter-American system
• First wave : individual indigenous persons as holders of Land Rights,
• 2001- 2006
• Second wave : transition toward indigenous peoples as holders of Land Rights,
• 2007- 2011
• Third wave : indigenous peoples as holders of Land Rights, 2012-2019.

"Mariana Monteiro de Matos, a brilliant young scholar, dedicates this book to the mighty Amazon, her "waterland," and its peoples. Born and raised in northwest Brazil, she has witnessed in close proximity the alarming harm done to this lung of the Earth as well as the threats to the survival, both physical and cultural, of its natural stewards, its indigenous peoples. She has also seen the resistance rising against the razing of all cultural differences in the name of an allegedly superior modern civilization, based on overweening economic and military might. The banner- cry of this resistance was the plea to accommodate vastly different ways of life, identities, affiliations, and allegiances around the world. The author has coined the term "polyversity" to encapsulate this policy goal"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction / Varsha Bhagat-Ganguly
• Approaches and methods of land title legislation in India : far from reality or close to the ground? / Amlanjyoti Goswami, Deepika Jha, and Kaye Lushington
• Critical assessment of recent real estate regulatory reforms in urban spaces : whether trickle-down effect is for all? / Ray Sharat Prasad
• The forest rights struggle and redefining the frontiers of governance : dismantling hegemony, restructuring authority, and collectivising control / C.R. Bijoy
• Maharashtra Agricultural Land Leasing Bill, 2017 : exploring opportunities for landless and women's collectives / Seema Kulkarni and Pallavi Harshe
• Customary rights and traditional wisdom : furthering land governance in Northeast India / Sonali Ghosh and Chandra Bhushan Kumar
• Land acquisition law in neoliberal India : old wine in a new bottle? / Rita Sinha
• Land acquisition for economic development : a comparative analysis of some landmark court judgments of the United States of America and India / Malabika Pal
• Neoliberalism, environmental protection, and regulation of land / Shiju Mazhuvanchery

This book examines the land question in neoliberal India based on a cohesive framework focusing on socio-legal and judicial interactions in a point of departure from the political-economy approach to land issues. It sheds light on several complex aspects of land matters in India and evolves a critical and multi-dimensional discourse by mapping out exchanges between social and political actors, the State, elites, citizenry, and the legal battle or judicial interpretations on land as right to property. Based on the themes of socio-legal policy and perspective on 'land' on the one hand and jurisprudence on the land question on the other, the volume discusses topics such as conclusive land titling; urban land governance; governance of forest land; land-leasing practices, policies, and interventions from the perspective of women; land acquisition policies and laws; how land matters interface with environmental issues; and judicial debates on 'compensation' against land acquisitions. It covers a wide range of case studies from all over India by bringing together specialists from across backgrounds. Comprehensive and topical, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of development studies, political studies, law, sociology, political economy, and public policy, as well as to professionals in NGOs, civil society organisations, think tanks, planning and public administration, lawyers, civil services and training institutes, and judicial and forest academies. Those working on rural and urban land issues in India, land management, land governance, environmental laws and governance, property rights, resource conflicts, social work, and rural development will find this book to be of special interest. .
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• Foreword
• The construction of an Indian right to property in land
• Thematic sketch of land laws in the country
• Land reform and its impact on the existing land tenure system
• Alteration of the land tenure system : laws relating to abolition of intermediaries and tenancy reform
• Law of land redistribution
• Land administration, records and titling
• Framework of the law of land acquisition and its inherent inequity : a combined working of land reform and acquisition law
• Displacement, dispossession, compensation and rehabilitation in matters of land reform and acquisitions
• Concluding remarks: Land relationships, landlessness and the law

This book is a critical study of the laws regulating landownership patterns. Land and land law are woven into the fabric of our society and are therefore integral to the substantive questions of equality and developmental ideologies of the state. This volume uncovers the socio-economic realities that surround land and approaches the law from the standpoint of the marginalized, landless and the dispossessed. This book: Undertakes an extensive survey of existing legislations, both at the union and state level through a range of analytical tables; Discusses the issues of land reform; abolition of intermediaries and tenancy reform; need for redistribution; ceilings on agricultural holdings; law of land acquisition; legal construction of public purpose and displacement, dispossession, compensation, and rehabilitation to construct a case for redistribution; Inquires into the phenomenon of landlessness that widely prevails in India today and lays bare its causes. An invaluable resource, this volume will be an essential read for all students and researchers of law, political studies, sociology, political economy, exclusion studies, development studies, and Asian studies.
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• 1. Background
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• 2. Nature of native title
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• 3. Extinguishment and validation
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• 4. Future dealings
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• 5. Right to negotiate, agreements and settlements, and compensation
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• 6. Fiduciary obligations
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• 7. Resource developments and traditional pursuits
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• 8. Institutions and jurisdiction
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• 9. Reflections on native title.

"Native Title in Australia, 4th edition is a comprehensive and authoritative work that provides the reader with an understanding of both the current operation of native title in Australia and its historical and political background and development. It covers the nature of the concept, its proof, content and extinguishment, explains the validation of past grants and acts and the limited degree of protection from future acts, examines compensation for native title, and discusses the application of native title principles to resource development and traditional pursuits. It considers both the common law and the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth). The fourth edition of this highly regarded work includes discussion on: the consistent recognition of exclusive possession, use and enjoyment; the impact of the compensation case, Griffiths (HCA -- 2019); the increasing use of consent determinations and the Noongar Native Title Settlement; the implications of BHP (FFC -- 2018) undermining the Native Title Act future act process; and the greater adherence to principles of equality by the courts, especially as to extinguishment. This book provides an ideal basis for both undergraduate and postgraduate study of native title and related indigenous issues, and is a reliable and informative source for practitioners, researchers and government bodies requiring current information in this area."

• Volume one:
• Chapter 1: Land law in the legal system
• Chapter 2: The doctrine of tenure
• Chapter 3: Estates in land
• Chapter 4: Equity and equitable estates and interests
• Chapter 5: Future interests
• Chapter 6: The extent of the landholder's rights
• Chapter 7: Title to land
• Chapter 8: The land transfer system
• Chapter 9: Title by registration
• Chapter 10: Caveats
• Volume two:
• Chapter 11: Leasehold estates
• Chapter 12: Residential tenancies
• Chapter 13: Concurrent interests in land
• Chapter 14: Unit titles and cross-leases
• Chapter 15: Land as security: mortgages and other charges
• Chapter 16: Easements and profits
• Chapter 17: Covenants affecting freehold land
• Chapter 18: Licences
• Chapter 19: Capacity to own and to deal with land.

"Principles of Land Law in New Zealand is an abridged, one book version of the highly regarded property resource, Hinde, McMorland & Sim Land Law in New Zealand. Maintaining the reputation of previous editions, Principles of land law in New Zealand offers students and practitioners authoritative commentary on the fundamentals of land law. Since the last edition, titled Principles of Real Property Law, the authors have incorporated significant legislative and case law updates in all chapters, with particular focus on the adaptation of the text throughout to incorporate the Land Transfer Act 2017"--Back cover.

• A foundational understanding of animal property law. The nexus of animal rights and the rights of nature ; Biodiversity loss as a property law problem
• Revealing the existing body of animal property rights. The biological origins of property ; Uncovering animal rights in existing property law
• A roadmap for property ownership to benefit biodiversity ; Using legal trusts to implement a system of animal property rights ; Traditional legal pathways to formalizing animal property rights ; Leveraging property rights to aid biodiversity ; Case studies of stakeholder collaborations managing resource competition between humans and wildlife. Case study
• 1: Ranchers and wild horses in the West ; Case study
• 2: Outsourcing thick-billed parrot recovery to Mexico ; Case study
• 3: Traditional ecological knowledge and scientific management of caribou
• Analyzing the potential of animal property ownership ; Evaluating a property-based approach to biodiversity preservation ; The Implications for interspecies ownership on property theory
• Conclusion: Are animal property rights the rights of nature?

Humankind coexists with every other living thing. People drink the same water, breathe the same air, and share the same land as other animals. Yet, property law reflects a general assumption that only people can own land. The effects of this presumption are disastrous for wildlife and humans alike. The alarm bells ringing about biodiversity loss are growing louder, and the possibility of mass extinction is real. Anthropocentric property is a key driver of biodiversity loss, a silent killer of species worldwide. But as law and sustainability scholar Karen Bradshaw shows, if excluding animals from a legal right to own land is causing their destruction, extending the legal right to own property to wildlife may prove its salvation. Wildlife as Property Owners advocates for folding animals into our existing system of property law, giving them the opportunity to own land just as humans do-to the betterment of all.
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• Introduction: Judicial precedent and indigenous rights
• The political and ideological context of the 1880s
• The historical context
• The factual background, cause of action, and evidence
• Chancellor Boyd's trial decision
• The Ontario Court of Appeal decision
• The Supreme Court of Canada judgments
• Lord Watson's Privy Council decision
• The decision's impact and the debate over Indigenous land rights in British Columbia
• The modern case law
• Conclusion: A lesson in judicial precedent

This book is vital reading for everyone involved in Aboriginal law or title, for legal historians and scholars, and for anyone interested in Indigenous rights in Canada.
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• Introduction
• Counterfeit narratives : the Peralta land grant archives and the forging of the West
• Searching for Sofia : race, gender, and authenticity at the 1895 court of private land claims
• Southwest speculation : newspaper coverage of the Peralta land grant
• Counterfeit nostalgia : William Atherton Dupuy's the Baron of the Colorados (1940)
• The Baron is like a battleground : Samuel Fuller's the Baron of Arizona (1950)
• Epilogue: Forgetting the Peralta land grant.

In Forging Arizona Anita Huizar-Hernandez looks back at a bizarre nineteenth-century land grant scheme that tests the limits of how ideas about race, citizenship, and national expansion are forged. During the aftermath of the U.S.-Mexico War and the creation of the current border, a con artist named James Addison Reavis falsified archives around the world to pass his wife off as the heiress to an enormous Spanish land grant so that they could claim ownership of a substantial portion of the newly-acquired Southwestern territories. Drawing from a wide variety of sources including court records, newspapers, fiction, and film, Anita Huizar-Hernandez argues that the creation, collapse, and eventual forgetting of Reavis's scam reveal the mechanisms by which narratives, real and imaginary, forge borders. An important addition to extant scholarship on the border U.S Southwest, Forging Arizona recovers a forgotten case that reminds readers that the borders that divide nations, identities, and even true from false are only as stable as the narratives that define them.
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• Introduction: A Caught-between people and an undefined land
• Blondeau's dilemma
• Separation or separate property : the unsettling prospect of ownership
• Washington's dilemma
• The courthouse coup in Iowa
• Scrip and the taking of the Minnesota Half Breed Tract
• Taking the Nebraska Half Breed Tract
• Charley's land
• Conclusion

In 1824 and 1830, over one hundred thousand acres across Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska were set aside as a home for descendants of Native American women and white traders and trappers. The treaties that established these so-called Half Breed Tracts left undefined exactly who held claim to the land, and by the end of the 1850s, settlers and speculators had appropriated virtually every acre for themselves. But in an era of ravenous westward expansion, why did the process of dispossession require three decades of debate and legal maneuvering? As David Ress argues, the fate of the Half Breed Tracts complicates longstanding ideas about land tenure and community in early national America.
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• Preface
• Land tenure
• Overlord-landlord
• Conclusion.

• Introduction: Raiding Russia
• Wild-West capitalism in the East
• Parasitism and corporate predation
• Mass privatization : virtual reality, volatile rights, and violent raiding
• Prospects of raiding evolution : prognosis is optimistic
• The invisible hand of the market and indivisble hand of the state
• The invisible hand of the market and the invincible hand of the raider
• Organizational forms of raiding : client, organizer, and executor
• Foot soldiers and firepower : prices on raiding services
• Conclusion.

This book analyzes privatization reforms, property rights, and raiders in post-Soviet Russia. The author surveys the existing literature in the context of predatory raiding in Russia and introduces the notion and concept of this phenomena; he suggests that the study may serve as an explanatory model for corporate, property, and land raiding in Russia. Building on previous scholarship, this monograph conceptualizes the predatory character of corporate hostile takeovers in Russia and links it with the coercive nature of the ruling authoritarian regime. This project will appeal to scholars, graduate students, and researchers in Russian and Post-Soviet politics, capitalism, corruption, and property rights.
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• Introduction
• Indigenous peoples and international law
• Soft law and hard realities : the UN guiding principles on business and human rights
• Indigenous Filipinos : the regalian doctrine and indigenous rights prior to the 1987 Constitution
• Indigenous rights under the 1987 Constitution
• Tourism and indigenous land rights
• The Ati community of Boracay Island
• Conclusion.

Mary Kristerie A. Baleva's Regaining Paradise Lost: Indigenous Land Rights and Tourism uses the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights as its overarching legal framework to analyze the intersections of indigenous land rights and the tourism industry. Drawing from treatises, treaties, and case law, it traces the development of indigenous rights discourse from the Age of Discovery to the adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The book highlights the Philippines, home to a rich diversity of indigenous peoples, and a country that considers tourism as an important contributor to economic development. It chronicles the Ati Community's 15-year struggle for recognition of their ancestral domains in Boracay Island, the region's premiere beach destination.
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• Foreword: Law in Sudan : an anthropological perspective / Baudoin Dupret
• Introduction: The anthropology of law in Muslim Sudan / Barbara Casciarri
• Land alienation as a legal, political, economic and moral issue in the Nile Valley of North Sudan / Enrico Ille
• Claiming tribal land rights in a global context : institutional bricolage and definitions of 'urf among pastoralists in Khartoum State / Barbara Casciarri
• Ambiguous land ownership in al-Ṣalḥa, Omdurman : land grabbing or "business as usual"? / Munzoul M. A. Assal
• Access to land for non-Muslims in greater Khartoum : disclosing divergent minority models in international and Sudanese laws / Phippe Gout
• Communal customary land rights in Sudan : the need for a comprehensive reform of statutory land laws / Mohamed A. Babiker
• Dynamics of dispute management in South Gedaref State, eastern Sudan : an anthropological approach / Zahir M. Abdal-Kareem
• Voluntary dispute resolution forums in al-Ḥilla al-Jadīda squatter settlement, Omdurman / Musa A. Abdul-Jalil
• Conflict, property, mortgage and state courts in Khartoum / Yazid Ben Hounet
• Customary courts : between accomodating and countering the hegemony of the laws of the state : the case of Mayo / Azza A. Abdel Aziz
• Customary law and courts in the context of Sudan's legal pluralism : marginalized or empowered under English common law and Islamic law? / Mohamed A. Babiker.

Anthropology of Law in Muslim Sudan analyses the hybridity of law systems and the plurality of legal practices in rural and urban contexts of contemporary Sudan, shedding light on the complex relation between Islam and society. It is the outcome of the international research program ANDROMAQUE (Anthropologie du Droit dans les Mondes Musulmans Africains et Asiatiques), funded by the French ANR (Agence National de la Recherche) between 2011 and 2014. Crossing two disciplinary perspectives, anthropology and law, the present volume contains original fieldwork data on contemporary urban and rural Sudan. Focusing on two major domains, land property and courts, several case studies demonstrate the relevance of an approach based on "legal practices" to underline, first, the plurality and hybridity of law systems and the relative role of the Islamic reference in Sudanese society, and, secondly, the reshaping of legal behaviors and norms after the breaking point of South Sudan's independence in 2011. Contributors are: Zahir M. Abdal-Kareem; Azza A. Abdel Aziz; Musa A. Abdul-Jalil; Munzoul M.A. Assal; Mohamed A. Babiker; Yazid Ben Hounet; Barbara Casciarri; Baudoin Dupret; Philippe Gout; Enrico Ille.
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• Introduction
• The evolution of land law in China : partial reform, vested interests, and small property
• Planting houses in Shenzhen
• Small property, big market : a focal point explanation
• Small property, adverse possession, and optional law
• Small property in transition : a tale of two villages
• All quiet on the judicial front?
• Conclusion: Market transition : sticky norms or sticky law?

Small property houses provide living space to about eight million migrant workers, office space for start-ups, grassroots police stations and public schools; their contribution to the economic growth and urbanization of a city is immense. The interaction between the small property sector and the formal legal order has a long history and small property has become an established engine of social and legal change. Chinese Small Property presents vivid stories about how institutional entrepreneurs worked together to create an impersonal market outside of the formal legal system to support millions of transactions. Qiao uses an eleven-month fieldwork project in Shenzhen - China's first special economic zone that has grown to a mega city with over fifteen million people - to demonstrate this. A thorough and detailed investigation into small property rights in China, Chinese Small Property is an invaluable source of new information for students and scholars of the field.
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• Introduction
• Ecological determination of production
• Land tax and insecure property rights in Ryotwary areas
• Land rights and Zamindari tenants
• Rural indebtedeness and rich peasant moneylending
• Agrarian market and commodity movement infrastructure development
• Agrarian social structure and labour market
• Conclusion.

• Introduction: Property, law, and race in the colony
• Use
• Propertied abstractions
• Improvement
• Status
• Conclusion: Life beyond the boundary.

In Colonial Lives of Property Brenna Bhandar examines how modern property law contributes to the formation of racial subjects in settler colonies and to the development of racial capitalism. Examining both historical cases and ongoing processes of settler colonialism in Canada, Australia, and Israel and Palestine, Bhandar shows how the colonial appropriation of indigenous lands depends upon ideologies of European racial superiority as well as upon legal narratives that equate civilized life with English concepts of property. In this way, property law legitimates and rationalizes settler colonial practices while it racializes those deemed unfit to own property. The solution to these enduring racial and economic inequities, Bhandar demonstrates, requires developing a new political imaginary of property in which freedom is connected to shared practices of use and community rather than individual possession.
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• Introduction: Terra nullius in Zion?
• The legal geography of indigenous Bedouin dispossession
• The land regime of the late Ottoman period
• The land regime of the Bristish mandate period
• Formulating the dead Negev doctrine during the Israeli period
• Historical geography of the Negev : Bedouin agriculture
• Bedouin territory and settlements
• The Bedouin as an indigenous community
• International law, indigenous land rights and Israel
• State and Bedouin policies and plans
• Conclusion.

Emptied Lands investigates the protracted legal, planning, and territorial conflict between the settler Israeli state and indigenous Bedouin citizens over traditional lands in southern Israel/Palestine. The authors place this dispute in historical, legal, geographical, and international-comparative perspectives, providing the first legal geographic analysis of the "dead Negev doctrine" used by Israel to dispossess and forcefully displace Bedouin inhabitants in order to Judaize the region. The authors reveal that through manipulative use of Ottoman, British and Israeli laws, the state has constructed its own version ofterra nullius. Yet, the indigenous property and settlement system still functions, creating an ongoing resistance to the Jewish state.Emptied Lands critically examines several key land claims, court rulings, planning policies, and development strategies, offering alternative local, regional, and international routes for justice.
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