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• Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables
• 1 Introduction 1.1 The State of Emergency in Laikipia, 2016-17 1.2 Organisation of Chapters
• 2 Setting and Thematic Components 2.1 Setting the Scene 2.2 Notes on the Sensitivity to Voices in a Fragmented Setting 2.3 Case Selection and Ecological Overview 2.4 Thematic Components
• 2.4.1 Contested Lands
• 2.4.2 Ethnicity and Autochthony
• 2.4.3 Fragmentation and Frontiers
• 2.4.4 Commons and Customary Resources
• 2.4.5 Plural Perspectives on Sustainable Land Management 2.5 Concluding Remarks
• 3 Macro Perspectives: A History of Laikipia's Contested Lands 3.1 Laikipia in the Nineteenth Century 3.2 Colonial Rule in Laikipia
• 3.2.1 The Kenya Land Commission, 1932-34
• 3.2.2 The Land Commission Questions
• 3.2.3 The African Reaction
• 3.2.4 The Emergent Urban Population and Trade 3.3 Independence Politics and the Repercussions of the Mau Mau
• 3.3.1 Pre-independence Mobility
• 3.3.2 Transition of Power and Land
• 3.3.3 Post-independence Politics
• 3.3.4 Land Reform and Resettlement Schemes 3.4 Post-colonial Land: Times of Autochthony
• 3.4.1 Immigration and Land-use Fragmentation
• 3.4.2 Violence and Political Instrumentalism 3.5 Concluding Remarks
• 4 Blaming the Others: Ethnic Identity and Claim-making 4.1 Historical Grievances
• 4.1.1 Present-day Grievances: Land, Ethnicity and Politics 4.2 Meta-Narratives of Claims and Their Repercussions in Lorien 4.3 Discursive Claims to Land
• 4.3.1 The Pastoralists
• 4.3.2 The Smallholders
• 4.3.3 The Ranchers
• 4.3.4 The Conservationists
• 4.3.5 The Absentees
• 4.3.6 Group Mobility 4.4 When Claims of Entitlement Are Acted Out
• 4.4.1 Encroachment and Raiding
• 4.4.2 Killing of Wildlife 4.5 Concluding Remarks
• 5 Enclosing the Land: From Common Land to Freehold Farmland and Back 5.1 The Construction of Enclosure in Laikipia: The Story of the Dykes 5.2 Towards Land Enclosures in Ol Moran and Thome
• 5.2.1 Symbolic Enclosures in Thome
• 5.2.2 Physically Enacted Enclosures in Ol Moran 5.3Present-day Enclosures in Laikipia
• 5.3.1 Practices of Enclosing Space: The Naming of Places
• 5.3.2 Physical Enclosures: Fencing 5.4 Concluding Remarks
• 6 Ambiguous Institutions: Twilight Actions of Land-buying Companies 6.1 All Things Come to Those Who Wait - or Do They? 6.2 The History of Land-buying Companies and Land Hunger 6.3 Institutional Pluralism and Land 6.4 The Case of Thome Farmers Company 6.5 The Power Dynamics of Land-buying Companies 6.6 Repercussions of Private Land Redistribution
• 6.6.1 Absentee Landlords
• 6.6.2 Absent Title Deeds and Vernacular Land Markets 6.7 Concluding Remarks
• 7 Africanisation or Invasion: Laikipia's land-use Change 7.1 Diachronic Perspectives on Land-use Change in Three Case Study Areas
• 7.1.1 Lorien
• 7.1.2 Ol Moran
• 7.1.3 Thome 7.2 Historical Perceptions of the Landscape
• 7.2.1 Travel Writers' Perceptions of New Land
• 7.2.2 Rights, Borders and Water: Land-use Practices from the 1930s
• 7.2.3 The Peak and Transition of European Settlement in the 1960s 7.3 Present-day Land-use Dynamics of an Africanised Landscape 7.4 Concluding Remarks
• 8 Conclusion 8.1 Understanding Laikipia
• 8.1.1 Frontiers, Fragmentation and Colonial Residue
• 8.1.2 Legal Pluralism and Land Rights
• 8.1.3 Ethnicity and the Politicisation of Land Claims
• 8.1.4 The Sustainablity of Land-management Practices 8.2 Resolving the State of Emergency in Laikipia, 2016-17 8.3 Final Thoughts
• Bibliography Index.
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Pastoralists, ranchers of European descent, conservationists, smallholders, and land investors with political influence converge on the Laikipia plateau in Kenya. Land is claimed by all - the tactics differ. Private property rights are presented, histories of presence are told, charges of immorality are applied, fences are electrified and some resort to violence. The region, marked by enclosures, is left as a tense fragmented frontier. Marie Gravesen embedded herself in the region prior to a wave of land invasions that swept the plateau leading up to Kenya's 2017 general election. Through a rich telling of the history of Laikipia's social, political and environmental dynamics, she invites a deeper understanding of the pre-election violence and general tensions as never done before.
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• Introduction
• 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
• Conclusion
• Summaries.

"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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• Introduction: Angela Cameron, Sari Graben and Val Napoleon: "The Role of Indigenous Laws in the Privatisation of Lands"
• Part 1: Indigenous Law in Practice
• 1. Emily Snyder and Val Napoleon: "Housing on Reserve: Developing a Critical Indigenous Feminist Property Theory"
• 2. Shalene Jobin: "Market Citizenship and Indigeneity"
• 3. Sarah Morales and Brian Thom: "The Principle of Sharing and the Shadow of Canadian Law"
• Part II: Political Issues
• 4. Nathalie Kermoal and Sarah Carter: "Canadian Aboriginal Politics: From Thomas Flanagan to the Conservatives"
• 5. Richard Daly: "Conceptualizing Aboriginal Taxpayers, Real Property and Communities of Sharing"
• 6. Jamie Baxter: "Social Movements and the Interpretation of Indigenous Land Rights"
• Part III: Common Law's Response
• 7. Michel Morin & Denis Blanchette: "Custom, Family Residences and the Indian Act"
• 8. Sari Graben and Christian Morey: "Aboriginal Title in Tsilhqot'in: Indigenous Property Law at the Supreme Court of Canada"
• Part IV: Lessons from the Transnational Context
• 9. Ibironke Odumosu "Property Rights in Nigeria's Niger Delta: Interactions between Customary Law and the Government's Oil and Gas Regime".
• 10. Tenile Brown: "Locating the Woman: a note on customary law and the utility of real property in the Swaziland context".
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While colonial imposition of the Canadian legal order has undermined Indigenous law, creating gaps and sometimes distortions, Indigenous peoples have taken up the challenge of rebuilding their laws, governance, and economies. Indigenous conceptions of land and property are central to this project. Creating Indigenous Property identifies how contemporary Indigenous conceptions of property are rooted in and informed by their societally specific norms, meanings, and ethics. Through detailed analysis, the authors illustrate that unexamined and unresolved contradictions between the historic and the present have created powerful competing versions of Indigenous law, legal authorities, and practices that reverberate through Indigenous communities. They have identified the contradictions and conflicts within Indigenous communities about relationships to land and non-human life forms, about responsibilities to one another, about environmental decisions, and about wealth distribution. Creating Indigenous Property contributes to identifying the way that Indigenous discourses, processes, and institutions can empower the use of Indigenous law. The book explores different questions generated by these dynamics, including: Where is the public/private divide in Indigenous and Canadian law, and why should it matter? How do land and property shape local economies? Whose voices are heard in debates over property and why are certain voices missing? How does gender matter to the conceptualization of property and the Indigenous legal imagination? What is the role and promise of Indigenous law in negotiating new relationships between Indigenous peoples and Canada? In grappling with these questions, readers will join the authors in exploring the conditions under which Canadian and Indigenous legal orders can productively co-exist.
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• La question foncière aux vie et vile siècles
• Le legs tardo-antique
• Codifications juridiques et agrimensoriques de l'Antiquité tardive
• Le droit agraire ou comment classer les terres dans l'Antiquité
• L'émergence d'une forme de propriété privée spécifique des terres publiques
• Les immunités tardo-antiques
• Les questions qui justifient l'évolution du droit agraire tardo-antique
• Les caractères généraux du régime foncier tardo-antique
• Évolution des structures foncières aux VIe et VIIe siècles
• Introduction : l'hétérogénéité des droits n'a pas disparu
• Les fiscs et leur usage
• La concession des Marais Pontins à Décius par Théodoric
• L'hospitalité et la tertiatio
• Délégation et fortunes foncières ecdésiastiques
• Le développement des délégations foncières aux établissements ecclésiastiques
• L'immunité
• L'invasio praediorum ou la contestation de la délégation publique aux églises
• L'aleu pendant le très haut Moyen Âge
• La gestion civique ou curiale de la publicité foncière, VIe - début IXe siècle
• Où affranchir des dépendants non libres
• L'insinuation des actes : de la gestion municipale au double archivage
• Les procédures de remplacement des actes perdus : 1 'apennis
• Interprétation par le droit agraire et l'adscription
• Les transformations majeures au VIIIe siècle et au début du IXe siècle
• Les formes du droit agraire pendant les vine et ixe siècles
• L'évolution de la documentation
• Les terres publiques
• Les terres ordinaires, ou du pages
• L'expression spatial de l'hétérogénéité juridique
• Les conditions agraires, un champ juridique à déterminer
• Les formes de la propriété
• Le classement par l'origine des biens
• Nommer la propriété à partir des utilités
• La prescription trentenaire
• Le renouveau des contrats en droit agraire
• Les outils juridiques disponibles en droit romain
• La politique de réorientation des concessions de terres publiques
• Caractérisation des concessions de terres fiscales et assimilées
• Classement en droit agraire
• Des techniques juridiques innovantes
• La villa, cadre et outil juridique
• La villa est un cadre légal adscriptif
• Les types juridiques de villae
• La mise en place du mode de gestion des terres publiques
• Les techniques du recensement et de l'évalutation foncière
• Formes et niveaux de l'arpentage
• L'évaluation et la fiscalité foncières : l'impôt personnel et réel
• Ls techniques d'abstraction
• Garantir les versements : les pagenses et les iuniores dans la villa d'Ardin
• La gestion de l'impôt exceptionnel en 877
• La politique de prise et la colonisation agraire carolingienne
• Une politique appuyée sur le concept de "prise" ou d'"occupation"
• Les caractéristiques de la colonisation ou "prise"
• Questions juridiques autour de la "prise"
• Faisceaux de droit agraire
• Aspects régionaux
• Contradictions au temps des crises, IXe et Xe siècles
• Le développement du formalisme
• L'arpentage et le recensement des terres
• L'enquête (inquisitio) et la res quaesita
• Synthèse sur le formalisme
• La crise de la tenure privée de la terre publique
• La crise des biens fiscaux et assimilés

• La réponse des souverains : la concession en ius proprium
• La transformation de la notion d'aleu.

"Barbare ? Informel ? Obscur ? En analysant la question foncière, ce livre démontre qu'au contraire le haut Moyen Âge est une période inventive pour le droit. Du VIe au Xe siècle, durant lesquels la détention de la terre est le fondement de toute puissance, les terres publiques sont gérées de manière attentive : comment concéder la terre publique à des fidèles, afin d'éviter le risque d'accaparement ? Analysant le droit foncier, ce livre interroge les cadres et les concepts avec lesquels on parle de la terre dans les sociétés dites "barbares" et permet de dresser un portrait inattendu des sociétés du haut Moyen Âge, plus attaché au formalisme juridique qu'on ne le croit couramment. Toutes les institutions foncières sont réexaminées et réévaluées ; des concessions aux églises à la colonisation agraire, en passant par les techniques d'enregistrement et de publicité foncière. En montrant ainsi un formalisme toujours plus affirmé et l'apparition d'innovations juridiques totalement inconnues du droit romain, ce livre propose une approche inédite des sociétés rurales du haut Moyen Âge."--Page 4 of cover.

Smallholder farmers' investment decisions and the efficiency of resource allocation depend on the security of land tenure. This paper develops a simple model that captures essential institutional features of rural land markets in Ghana, including the dependence of future rights over land on current cultivation and land rental decisions. The model predictions guide the evaluation of a pilot land titling intervention that took place in an urbanizing area located in the Central Region of Ghana. The evaluation is based on a regression discontinuity design combined with three rounds of household survey data collected over a period of six years. The analysis finds strong markers for the program's success in registering land in the targeted program area. However, land registration does not translate into agricultural investments or increased credit taking. Instead, treated households decrease their amount of agricultural labor, accompanied by only a small reduction of agricultural production and no changes in productivity. In line with this result, households decrease their landholdings amid a surge in land valuations. The analysis uncovers important within-household differences in how women and men respond differentially to the program. There appears to be a general shift to nonfarm economic activities, and women's business profits increased considerably

• Introduction
• 1 Atlantic Oligarchy
• 2 The Three Kingdoms
• 3 The Adventure for Irish land
• 4 Grocers Hall
• 5 Commonwealth
• 6 Republic
• 7 Restoration Conclusion Index
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This book is about the transformation of England's trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, a revolution that destroyed Ireland. In 1642 a small group of merchants, the 'Adventurers for Irish land', raised an army to conquer Ireland but sent it instead to fight for parliament in England. Meeting secretly at Grocers Hall in London from 1642 to 1660, they laid the foundations of England's empire and modern fiscal state. But a dispute over their Irish land entitlements led them to reject Cromwell's Protectorate and plot to restore the monarchy. This is the first book to chart the relentless rise of the Adventurers and their profound political influence. It is essential reading for students of Britain and Ireland in the mid-seventeenth century, the origins of England's empire and the Cromwellian land settlement. -- .
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Foundational to the monitoring of international goals on land ownership and rights are the household survey respondents who provide the required individual-disaggregated data. Leveraging two national surveys in Malawi that differed in their approach to respondent selection, this study shows that, compared with the international best practice of privately interviewing adults about their personal asset ownership and rights, the business-as-usual approach of interviewing the most knowledgeable household member(s) on adult household members' ownership of and rights to assets leads to (i) higher rates of exclusive reported and economic ownership of agricultural land among men, and (ii) lower rates of joint reported and economic ownership among women. Further, substantial agreement exists on agricultural landowners and rights holders, as reported by the privately-interviewed spouses. When discrepancies emerge, proxies for greater household status for women are positively associated with the scenarios where women attribute at least some land ownership to themselves

• Introduction
• Field consecrations in Leviticus
• The sacred reserve of Yahweh in Ezekiel's temple vision
• Hellenistic rulers, Jewish temples, and sacred land
• Field consecrations in the Late Second Temple Period
• Herem property and landholding by priests in the Late Second Temple period
• An allusion to a sacred tree in Paul's Letter to the Romans
• Summary and conclusions

This exploration of the Judean priesthood's role in agricultural cultivation demonstrates that the institutional reach of Second Temple Judaism (516 BCE-70 CE) went far beyond the confines of its houses of worship, while exposing an unfamiliar aspect of sacred place-making in the ancient Jewish experience. Temples of the ancient world regularly held assets in land, often naming a patron deity as landowner and affording the land sanctity protections. Such arrangements can provide essential background to the Hebrew Bible's assertion that God is the owner of the land of Israel. They can also shed light on references in early Jewish literature to the sacred landholdings of the priesthood or the temple.
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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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• De la dynamique urbaine à la pression sur les périphéries
• Le foncier autour de Bamako : cadre théorique et méthodologique
• Méthodologie de recherche
• Bamako, un territoire en pleine mutation socio-spatiale
• La terre, ressource convoitée dans le périurbain
• Analyse des statuts fonciers au Mali et taille des parcelles périurbaines de Bamako
• Croissance spatiale de Bamako et des communes d'étude : évolution de l'usage du foncier
• Jeu d'acteurs face à la gestion foncière
• Mutations foncières et recompositions autour de Bamako
• Evolution de l'occupation des terres dans les communes d'études
• Relations entre la ville de Bamako et le périurbain : quel approvisionnement urbain
• Enjeux et solutions pour une gouvernance durable du périurbain.

"Dans un contexte d'urbanisation galopante, l'étude des enjeux des mutations et des recompositions du foncier autour de Bamako (Mali) laisse transparaître des transformations importantes du foncier et permet d'appréhender les inégalités d'accès et les contraintes auxquelles les populations rurales sont confrontées. La forte croissance démographique constatée aussi bien dans les villes que dans les communes périphériques, est source de profondes mutations foncières et d'enjeux importants. Ces espaces sont affectés par de rapides et multiples transformations dans un contexte de décentralisation favorisé par un libéralisme économique depuis l'avènement de la démocratie. L'objectif principal de cette recherche est de contribuer à une meilleure connaissance des mutations du foncier agricole et de leur rôle dans l'approvisionnement de la ville de Bamako. A travers les enquêtes basées sur l'observation sur le terrain, l'enquête par questionnaire et celle par entretien, l'auteur analyse les enjeux fonciers, les acteurs du jeu foncier, le rôle du périurbain dans l'approvisionnement de la ville, les conflits engendrés afin de mieux comprendre les mutations et les recompositions foncières dans les espaces périurbains. Dans son ouvrage l'auteur montre que la ville de Bamako qui connaît une urbanisation rapide entretient des relations réciproques et complémentaires avec les communes rurales périurbaines. Cette situation est l'une des causes des conflits fonciers impliquant de nombreux acteurs (l'État, les autorités coutumières, les paysans, les citadins et les ruraux, les particuliers) et auxquels les politiques publiques de la ville et du cadastre doivent apporter des solutions définitives."--Page 4 of cover.

"Biography of Marie Mason Potts, a Mountain Maidu woman, from her formative years in off-reservation boarding schools, through marriage and motherhood, and into the spheres of Native American politics and cultural revitalization."-- Provided by publisher.

• pt.
• 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."

• Prologue : le Baguazo du 5juin 2009, un lieu de mémoires en conflit
• Surveiller et réduire les confins (1946-1970)
• Une terre de mission disputée
• Un enjeu de souveraineté : la question frontalière
• Occuper la frontière : le choix de la sous-traitance étatique
• Un territoire à relier : l'enjeu de la route Olmos-Marafién
• Explorer le territoire, compter les âmes
• Les confins, un territoire pour les religieux : évangéliser
• Un paradigme pastoral inchangé
• ... et hispaniser : la "guerre des écoles"
• Acteurs évangéliques : l'ILV et la figure de Cameron Townsend (1919-1945)
• L'alliance entre l'ILV et le ministère de l'Éducation (1945)
• Le sens du bilinguisme : hispaniser, intégrer, dissoudre?
• Le Haut Marare, lieu d'implantation de l'ILV
• Concurrence pour l'école, concurrence pour les âmes
• Les infortunes de la modernité
• Le mirage éducatif
• Un facteur de fixation des communautés
• La frontière à l'honneur
• Comment on devient marginal au contact de l'englobant
• Une acculturation sous tension
• La trilogie englobante : routes, marchés, colons
• Manuel Antonio Mesones Muro, "l'homme du Maraii6n"
• Mémoire locale, mémoire nationale
• Le maillage du territoire et les débuts de la colonisation
• Vers une cause commune jfvara
• Première prise de conscience collective
• La découverte d'une cause commune intra-ethnique : l'opposition à la route
• Une rencontre (1971-1992) ?
• Un changement partiel de paradigme pastoral
• Une deuxième génération en proie au doute
• Des trajectoires atypiques : le cas de Peter Hansen
• La construction d'une rhétorique critique : le cas de Luis Uriarte
• De nombreux accidents biographiques : des années de crise missionnaire
• La selva, lieu discret d'une crise post-conciliaire
• L'heure des questions sociales : le rôle de la CEAS
• L'émergence d'une question amazonienne au sein de l'église catholique
• Renouveler les savoirs religieux sur le lointain
• Dans la selva, un écho de la théologie de la Libération
• Un courant né dans la métropole.
• ... auquel les confins réservent une certaine réception
• Une réforme de la pastorale : une troisième génération missionnaire
• La communion en actes du père "Manolo"
• L'adieu aux savoirs sur le lointain
• Au service du "développement intégral"
• La mise en sourdine de la concurrence avec les évangéliques
• Repenser la nation depuis ses marges : une tentative
• Quel héritage indigéniste pour les sciences sociales ?
• Provincialiser Lima ?
• L'apport de l'ethnohistoire
• Une prise de distance avec les institutions confessionnelles
• L'essor des travaux ethnographiques et linguistiques
• Deux visages d'une anthropologie appliquée
• Les anthropologues et le pouvoir liménien
• Le dilemme de la catégorie légale de "communauté native"
• La dégradation de la sécurité juridique des communautés natives à partir de 1975
• Mise à distance du pouvoir et saut d'échelle
• La participation à une proposition éducative alternative
• Le diagnostic scolaire initial (1985-1987)
• Promouvoir une "vision intégrale du processus éducatif"
• La terre, priorité du mouvement indigène
• Construire une parole commune

• La naissance du mouvement indigène awajén et wampfs
• Les premières organisations : OCAAM et CAH
• L'image contre le réel ? L'affaire Herzog
• Construire une proposition de développement alternatif pour le Haut Marahén
• La santé : vers la prise en compte de la dimension culturelle des enjeux sanitaires
• L'éducation, instrument d'une "récupération du pouvoir ethnique"
• L'autodéfense en temps de conflit intérieur
• Jeux d'échelles : nationalisation et internationalisation des luttes depuis le Haut Mare
• Comment parler sans intermédiaire ? La création de l'AIDESEP (1985)
• L'enjeu de la titrisation des terres : refonder la propriété foncière
• Le nouvel inventaire des ressources de la région : les convoitises étatiques et privées
• Le territoire, enjeu de luttes awajûn et wampfs
• Assurer la défense légale des communautés natives locales
• La bataille intellectuelle pour la définition du territoire : enjeu juridique, enjeu anthropologique, enjeu politique
• Le marché et le territoire (1993-2009)
• La réapparition de la frontière
• La nationalisation des confins en temps de conflits : main droite...
• Guerre en terre jivara (1981-1995) et sanctuarisation éphémère du territoire frontalier
• Essor de la logique environnementaliste (1995-2004)
• Prospection contre protection (2005-août 2007)
• Lutte socio-environnementale autour du tracé du parc national (2007-2008)
• Les nouveaux visages du nationalisme péruvien
• Les mutations de la diplomatie péruvienne en temps de globalisation
• Le modèle exportateur "au concret" : le Haut Marah6n, espace de front
• ... main gauche : le surgissement incertain de l'état dans le Haut Maraiion
• Une situation de relégation sanitaire (années 1990)
• Le programme Frontera selva : concevoir le développement en contexte néolibéral (années 2000)
• De nouveaux acteurs : l'internationalisation de la cause amazonienne
• Le paradigme communautaire à l'honneur
• La citoyenneté en pratique : une réappropriation partielle du programme par le local
• Une nationalisation par le soin? (2004-2009)
• Espoir ou espérance? Les réactions locales au néolibéralisme
• Les termes ambigus de la "post-modernité"
• Une grammaire activiste globale et équivoque
• Le genre, "faux-ami" idéologique?
• Nature : sens et contresens autour d'une notion phare de la post-modernité militante
• Concilier démocratie libérale et pauvreté? Un nouveau dilemme
• L'idéal d'une démocratie plurielle : le droit à la consultation préalable et ses effets sur les choix de développement
• Rebâtir l'État : institutionnalité indigène et pluralisme juridique
• Fin de l'histoire ou fuite eschatologique? Croire dans le Haut Maren à la fin du XXe siècle
• Errances du "glocal", impasse du national
• La démocratie locale en doute
• La méfiance envers l'exercice du pouvoir municipal
• La fragmentation du mouvement indigène alto-maraNnien
• Détruire et/ou refonder le développement (avril 2008-5 juin 2009)
• Le premier paro indigène (9août 2008)
• Une crise de légitimité au sein de l'AIDESEP
• Trop de précipitation ?
• La conception du second paro indigène : du 23 août 2008 au 9avril 2009.

"L'Amazonie revient par vagues dans les médias occidentaux, tandis que son devenir - écologique, économique, politique ? se fait plus incertain. Cet ouvrage se penche sur une de ses bordures occidentales, marquée par un mouvement socio-environnemental survenu en 2009. Celui-ci s'est conclu dramatiquement, et a démarré en raison de la remise en cause par le gouvernement du droit de propriété foncière collective des groupes autochtones. Si on a parfois conclu à l'obstruction principielle des indigènes à la marche du progrès, une perspective historienne invite plutôt à revenir sur la relation complexe, nouée par ces mêmes indigènes avec l'État et les dynamiques transnationales qui affectent leurs territoires. C'est le choix fait par cet ouvrage, qui examine un demi-siècle d'histoire dans le Haut Maranôn, lieu de vie des Awaffin, des Wampis, de populations métisses et d'étrangers, qui donnent à lire un "local" traversé de logiques globalisées. Missionnaires chrétiens, soldats chargés de faire frontière, indigènes allant à la ville et en revenant, colons en quête de subsistances, anthropologues à la recherche d'un autre modèle éducatif, activistes en quête d'une autre construction nationale, ingénieurs, médecins : ces acteurs se croisent, parfois sans se parler, et participent du dialogue difficilement établi avec la selva, cette Amazonie tour à tour fantasmée et crainte, qui n'en a pas moins toute sa place dans l'histoire péruvienne, et dans le débat mondial sur la notion et les modèles de développement."--Page 4 of cover.

• 1. Introduction-- Part I. Determinants of Contentious Land Narratives:
• 2. A theory of land and electoral violence-- 3 Historical origins of electoral violence--
• 4. Land inequality and land narratives: theory and evidence--
• 5. Narrative formation in the Central Rift Valley-- Part II. Determinants of Election Violence:
• 6. Contentious land narratives and the escalation of violence--
• 7. A puzzle of non-escalation? Contentious land narratives and stability on Kenya's coast-- Part III. Consequences of Electoral Violence:
• 8. Individual-level causes and effects of election violence--
• 9. Conclusion.
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Examining a key puzzle in the study of electoral violence, this study asks how elites organize violence and why ordinary citizens participate. While existing theories of electoral violence emphasize weak institutions, ethnic cleavages, and the strategic use of violence, few specify how the political incentives of elites interact with the interests of ordinary citizens. Providing a new theory of electoral violence, Kathleen F. Klaus analyzes violence as a process of mobilization that requires coordination between elites and ordinary citizens. Drawing on fifteen months of fieldwork in Kenya, including hundreds of interviews and an original survey, Political Violence in Kenya argues that where land shapes livelihood and identity, and tenure institutions are weak, land, and narratives around land, serve as a key device around which elites and citizens coordinate the use of violence. By examining local-level variation during Kenya's 2007-8 post-election violence, Klaus demonstrates how land struggles structure the dynamics of contentious politics and violence.
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• Introduction
• 1: Background: Property in Delhi, 1857-1911
• 2: A Malleable Cityscape
• 3: Landlords, Tenants, and Real Estate Firms
• 4: Representing Commodified Space: Maps, Auctions, Leases and, 'Narration' of Property
• 5: Intimacy in Four Registers: State, Space, and Capital in Delhi
• 6: Lineages of the Housing Question
• 7: Grave Investments: Abstraction and Sacral Spaces in 20th Century Colonial Delhi Conclusion
• Appendix I: The Database of Construction Bibliography.
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Possessing the City is a social history of the property market in late-colonial Delhi; a period of much turbulence and transformation. It argues that historians of South Asian cities must connect transformations in urban space with the economy of the city. Using new archival material, Anish Vanaik outlines the place of private property development in Delhi's economy from 1911 to 1947. Rather than large-scale state initiatives, like the Delhi Improvement Trust, it was profit-oriented, decentralised, and market-based initiatives of urban construction that created the Delhi cityscape. This volume also serves to chart the emerging relationship between the state and urban space in this period. Rather than a narrow focus on urban planning ideas, it argues that the relationship be thought of in a triangular fashion: the intermediation of the property market was crucial to emerging statecraft and urban form in this period. Possessing the City examines struggles and conflicts over the commodification of land, particularly disputes over rents and prices of urban property. The question of commodification can also, however, be discerned in struggles that were not ostensibly about economic issues: clashes over religious sites in the city. Through careful attention to the historical interrelationships between state, space, and the economy in Delhi, this volume offers a novel intervention in the history of late-colonial Delhi.
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• Introduction
• 1: Background: Property in Delhi, 1857-1911
• 2: A Malleable Cityscape
• 3: Landlords, Tenants, and Real Estate Firms
• 4: Representing Commodified Space: Maps, Auctions, Leases and, 'Narration' of Property
• 5: Intimacy in Four Registers: State, Space, and Capital in Delhi
• 6: Lineages of the Housing Question
• 7: Grave Investments: Abstraction and Sacral Spaces in 20th Century Colonial Delhi Conclusion
• Appendix I: The Database of Construction Bibliography.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Possessing the City is a social history of the property market in late-colonial Delhi; a period of much turbulence and transformation. It argues that historians of South Asian cities must connect transformations in urban space with the economy of the city. Using new archival material, Anish Vanaik outlines the place of private property development in Delhi's economy from 1911 to 1947. Rather than large-scale state initiatives, like the Delhi Improvement Trust, it was profit-oriented, decentralised, and market-based initiatives of urban construction that created the Delhi cityscape. This volume also serves to chart the emerging relationship between the state and urban space in this period. Rather than a narrow focus on urban planning ideas, it argues that the relationship be thought of in a triangular fashion: the intermediation of the property market was crucial to emerging statecraft and urban form in this period. Possessing the City examines struggles and conflicts over the commodification of land, particularly disputes over rents and prices of urban property. The question of commodification can also, however, be discerned in struggles that were not ostensibly about economic issues: clashes over religious sites in the city. Through careful attention to the historical interrelationships between state, space, and the economy in Delhi, this volume offers a novel intervention in the history of late-colonial Delhi.
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• 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.

• Introduction.- Previous scholarship, methodology and the concept of development.- Xinjiang Economic Development.- Social development in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.- Walking in Two Worlds: Kashgar and Shihezi.- Land use and acquisition dynamics in Kashgar: power struggles and social change in a contemporary oasis.- Uyghurs vs Uyghurs. Fragmented identities in contemporary Xinjiang.- Conclusions - The CCP and a "bridge society" in XUAR: ethnicity as a tool for social engineering and stratification.
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In an unprecedented exploration of space and power in rural Xinjiang, a Chinese region home to the Muslim population of the Uyghurs, this book adopts a grounded theory approach and a trans-ethnic perspective into the complex and sensitive topic of land issues and agricultural land evictions in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. By exposing the dynamics of land acquisition and power building in the politically contested space of the region, the author shows how state owned land in a key commercial and cultural hub on the new Silk Road became a commodity, in a context of violent human interactions driven by power. Relying on previously undisclosed material and on a unique field research among farmers and local authorities, the author retraces the steps of Uyghur peasant workers, entangled in a suspended situation between abandoned rural villages, migration and urban alienation, in a book which explores agency in violent processes of social change, and adds concepts and insights to the current knowledge of how we become modern citizens. The microcosm of Kashgar, an oasis-city in Xinjiang, acts as a mirror reflecting socio political dynamics framing people's identity. Shedding light on one of the most inaccessible region in China, this book is a key read for academics and a broader public willing to get a clearer view of one of the sourest power struggle in the most contested region within the next superpower.
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• Preface Introduction
• Chapter 1. Cementing the Past with the Future: The Materiality of Stone and Concrete
• Chapter 2. Ruined Heritage
• Chapter 3. Digging with the Cin
• Chapter 4. Living as if Indebted
• Chapter 5. Beneath the Wall Surrounding the Mor Gabriel Monastery
• Chapter 6. Loss, Compensation, and Debt Epilogue
• Notes References Index Acknowledgments.
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The military conflict between the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Turkish Armed Forces has endured over the course of the past three decades. Since 1984, the conflict has claimed the lives of more than 45,000 civilians, militants, and soldiers, as well as causing thousands of casualties and disappearances. It has led to the displacement of millions of people and caused the forced evacuation of nearly 4,000 villages and towns. Suspended periodically by various cease-fires, the conflict has been a significant force in shaping many of the ethnic, social, and political enclaves of contemporary Turkey, where contradictory forms of governance have been installed across the Kurdish region. In States of Dispossession, Zerrin OEzlem Biner traces the violence of the protracted conflict in the Kurdish region through the lens of dispossession. By definition, dispossession implies the act of depriving someone of land, property, and other belongings as well as the result of such deprivation. Within the fields of Ottoman and contemporary Turkish studies, social scientists to date have examined the dispossession of rights and property as a technique for governing territory and those citizens living at its margins. States of Dispossession instead highlights everyday experiences in an attempt to understand the persistent and intangible effects of dispossession. Biner examines the practices and discourses that emerge from local memories of unspoken, irresolvable histories and the ways people of differing religious and ethnic backgrounds live with the remains of violence that is still unfolding. She explores the implicit knowledge held by ordinary people about the landscape and the built environment and the continuous struggle to reclaim rights over dispossessed bodies and places.
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• Preface Introduction
• Chapter 1. Cementing the Past with the Future: The Materiality of Stone and Concrete
• Chapter 2. Ruined Heritage
• Chapter 3. Digging with the Cin
• Chapter 4. Living as if Indebted
• Chapter 5. Beneath the Wall Surrounding the Mor Gabriel Monastery
• Chapter 6. Loss, Compensation, and Debt Epilogue
• Notes References Index Acknowledgments.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

The military conflict between the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Turkish Armed Forces has endured over the course of the past three decades. Since 1984, the conflict has claimed the lives of more than 45,000 civilians, militants, and soldiers, as well as causing thousands of casualties and disappearances. It has led to the displacement of millions of people and caused the forced evacuation of nearly 4,000 villages and towns. Suspended periodically by various cease-fires, the conflict has been a significant force in shaping many of the ethnic, social, and political enclaves of contemporary Turkey, where contradictory forms of governance have been installed across the Kurdish region. In States of Dispossession, Zerrin OEzlem Biner traces the violence of the protracted conflict in the Kurdish region through the lens of dispossession. By definition, dispossession implies the act of depriving someone of land, property, and other belongings as well as the result of such deprivation. Within the fields of Ottoman and contemporary Turkish studies, social scientists to date have examined the dispossession of rights and property as a technique for governing territory and those citizens living at its margins. States of Dispossession instead highlights everyday experiences in an attempt to understand the persistent and intangible effects of dispossession. Biner examines the practices and discourses that emerge from local memories of unspoken, irresolvable histories and the ways people of differing religious and ethnic backgrounds live with the remains of violence that is still unfolding. She explores the implicit knowledge held by ordinary people about the landscape and the built environment and the continuous struggle to reclaim rights over dispossessed bodies and places.
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• Foreword by Dr Willy Mutunga Introduction: What We Talk About When We Talk About Land Land Reform in Kenya: The History of an Idea Making Mischief: Land in Modern Kenya Land and Constitutional Change The New Institutional Framework for Land Governance Land Governance Before the Supreme Court Rethinking Historical Land Injustices Taking Justice Seriously.
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Why, despite the introduction of new land laws beginning in 2012, has there been an increase in land grabbing in Kenya? Why has legislation failed to address long standing grievances about grossly unequal land distribution? This important book suggests that questions of justice should be central to discussions of African land reform. Constitutional reformers in Kenya promised transformative changes in land relations. However, the reality has disappointed. Land law reforms since 2010 have been more concerned with the administration of land and with bureaucratic power than with the real consequences of unequal access to land for ordinary Kenyans. Manji documents this thwarted struggle and surveys the prospects for genuine change. Published in association with the British Institute in Eastern Africa. Ambreena Manji is Professor of Land Law and Development at the School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University. Between 2010 and 2014, she was Director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa. Her books include The Politics of Land Reform in Africa (2006).
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• 1. Land Rights as an Institution for Urban Development
• 2. Land as a Means of Production: Urban and Rural Changes without Market Mechanisms Prior to 1978
• 3. Restoration of Land as Assets: Genesis of a Market of Land Leasehold
• 4. Land Markets in the Making: A Dual Land Market and Land Rent Seeking
• 5. Urban Restructuring along with a Transitional Institution of Land Development Right
• 6. Bottom-up Rural Spatial Changes under an Uncertain Institution of Collective Land Rights
• 7. From Rural Fragmentation to Urban Integration: Governance over Spatial Change
• 8. Conclusion: Land Rights and Sustainable Urbanization in the Future.
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How have the development and redevelopment of China's cities since the early 1950s transformed the settlements and fortunes of a fifth of the world's population? Rapid urbanization since the 1980s has changed the nation from a rural society to an urban one, marking it as one of the most significant transformations in history. As a country with severe land scarcity, land resources are intensively contested for during urbanization under the new regime of marketization. This book focuses on the impact of the institution of land rights that have transitioned from private ownership to socialist state ownership, and subsequently to public land leasing in the urban domain, and to collective ownership in rural areas. In the context of defining the relationship between the state and the market, the gradualist transition of land rights gives rise to intriguing processes of place-making. The elaboration of these processes will engage several revealing conceptual notions: land as a means of production, land commodification, ambiguous land rights, incomplete land rights, trading land use rights for land development rights, institutional uncertainty, land rent seeking and dissipating, local developmental state, danwei-enterprises, and more. The newly created landed interests are embedded intricately within the urban spatial structure. This book would especially be of interest to scholars interested in developmental economics, urban planning, geography, public policies, public management, and sociology, and also practitioners focusing on development and planning.
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• Acknowledgments Abbreviations and Frequently Cited Sources Note on Transliteration and Transcription
• Introduction
• 1 Please Provide Chapter Title
• 1 Context I: Birgivi's Life
• 2 Context II: Birgivi's oeuvre
• 3 Context III: the Bigger Picture-Early Modern Sunnitization, the Negotiation of Orthodoxy and the Pietist Turn
• 2 The Intellectual Framework
• 1 The Hanafi Tradition-Law and Ethics
• 2 Post-Classical fatawa Handbooks
• 3 Abu al-Layth al-Samarqandi
• 4 Other Hanafi Literature
• 5 The Corruption of Times
• 6 Legal Sources beyond the Hanafi School
• 7 Birgivi and the Hanbalis
• 8 Birgivi and Hadith
• 9 Sufism
• 10 Science of the Hearts
• 11 Ghazali
• 12 Emulation of the Prophet
• 13 Birgivi in Contemporary Comparison: Shahzade Korkud
• 14 Birgivi and the Ottoman nasihat-name: Mustafa 'Ali
• 15 Birgivi and Ottoman Jurisprudence: Ebu's-Su'ud
• 3 The Fundamentals of Piety: an Overview of the Structure and Contents of al-Tariqa al-muhammadiyya
• 1 Introduction
• 2 A Note on the Textual History of al-Tariqa al-muhammadiyya
• 3 General Structure of TM and Overview of Contents
• 4 Detailed Summary of Contents-Introduction
• 5 Innovation
• 6 Bid'a and Sufism
• 7 Moderation
• 8 Part Two-Chapter One-Doctrine
• 9 The Legal Status of the various sciences
• 10 Part Two, Chapter Three: Piety
• 11 The Practical Manifestations of Piety-the Core of TM
• 12 The Vices of the Heart
• 13 Birgivi's Conception of the Soul
• 14 The Vices of the Tongue
• 15 The Vices of the Ear
• 16 The Vices of the Eye
• 17 The Vices of the Hand
• 18 The Vices of the Belly
• 19 The Vices of the Private Parts
• 20 The Vices of the Leg
• 21 Vices Unspecified by Any One Part of the Body
• 22 Part Three of TM-Ritual Purity
• 23 Part Three-Chapter Two-Finance, Land Tenure and Taxation
• 24 What Holds It All Together
• 4 The Slippery Slope of Piety: Birgivi on Sincerity, Sanctimony and How to Determine Right Intention
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Vocabulary and Semantics, Definitions and Classifications
• 3 Riya' as Lesser Shirk
• 4 Other Types of Dissimulation
• 5 Sincerity (ikhlas and ihsan)
• 6 Truthfulness (sidq)
• 7 Various Taxonomies of riya'
• 8 Legal Categorization
• 9 The Why(s) and How(s) of riya'
• 10 The "People of Religion"
• 11 When Things Are Not That Clear-Cut
• 12 Embarrassment
• 13 How to Cure the Evil of riya'
• 14 Display in Order to Guide, but How Can You Be Sure
• 15 Conclusion
• 5 The Economics of Piety: Birgivi on Wastefulness, the Cash waqf and Ottoman Land Tenure and Taxation
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Basic Concepts-the Good and Bad Qualities of Wealth
• 3 Stinginess, Generosity and Waste
• 4 The Causes, Manifestations and Antidotes of Wastefulness
• 5 Charity, Poverty and Begging
• 6 Payment for Religious Services
• 7 The Cash waqf
• 8 Land Tenure and Taxation
• 9 Conclusion
• Conclusion Bibliography Reference Works, Library Catalogues, Bibliographies Primary Sources Secondary Sources Index.
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In Virtue, Piety and the Law Katharina Ivanyi examines Birgivi Mehmed Efendi's (d. 981/1573) al-Tariqa al-muhammadiyya, a major work of pietist exhortation and advice, composed by the sixteenth-century Ottoman jurist, Hadith scholar and grammarian, who would articulate a style of religiosity that had considerable reformist appeal into modern times. Linking the cultivation of individual virtue to questions of wider political, social and economic concern, Birgivi played a significant role in the negotiation and articulation of early modern Ottoman Hanafi piety. Birgivi's deep mistrust of the passions of the human soul led him to prescribe a regime of self-surveillance and control that was only matched in rigor by his likewise exacting interpretation of the law in matters of everyday life, as much as in state practices, such as the cash waqf, Ottoman land tenure and taxation.
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• 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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• 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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• Cowboys and capitalists
• Crooked lines
• Capitol capital
• Cattle convention
• Changes in the wind
• The big open
• Empire
• Closeout

The Texas state constitution of 1876 set aside three million acres of public land in the Texas Panhandle in exchange for construction of the state's monumental red-granite capitol in Austin. That land became the XIT Ranch, briefly one of the most productive cattle operations in the West. The story behind the legendary XIT Ranch, told in full in this book, is a tale of Gilded Age business and politics at the very foundation of the American cattle industry. The capitol construction project, along with the acres that would become XIT, went to an Illinois syndicate led by men influential in politics and business. Unable to sell the land, the Illinois group, backed by British capital, turned to cattle ranching to satisfy investors. In tracing their efforts, which expanded to include a satellite ranch in Montana, historian Michael M. Miller demythologizes the cattle business that flourished in the late-nineteenth-century American West, paralleling the United States' first industrial revolution. The XIT Ranch came into being and succeeded, Miller shows, only because of the work of accountants, lawyers, and managers, overseen by officers and a board of seasoned international capitalists. In turn, the ranch created wealth for some and promoted the expansion of railroads, new towns, farms, and jobs. Though it existed only from 1885 to 1912, from Texas to Montana the operation left a deep imprint on community culture and historical memory. Describing the Texas capitol project in its full scope and gritty detail, XIT cuts through the popular portrayal of great western ranches to reveal a more nuanced and far-reaching reality in the business and politics of the beef industry at the close of America's Gilded Age.
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• Intro
• EDITORS' PREFACE
• CONTENTS
• PART I: PROPERTY
• ROYAL MINES ACT 1424
• LEASES ACT 1449
• MINES AND METALS ACT 1592
• REGISTRATION ACT 1617
• REAL RIGHTS ACT 1693
• REGISTRATION OF LEASES (SCOTLAND) ACT 1857
• TRANSMISSION OF MOVEABLE PROPERTY (SCOTLAND) ACT 1862
• LAND REGISTERS (SCOTLAND) ACT 1868
• TITLES TO LAND CONSOLIDATION (SCOTLAND) ACT 1868
• CONVEYANCING (SCOTLAND) ACT 1874
• HERITABLE SECURITIES (SCOTLAND) ACT 1894
• CONVEYANCING (SCOTLAND) ACT 1924
• CONVEYANCING AND FEUDAL REFORM (SCOTLAND) ACT 1970
• PRESCRIPTION AND LIMITATION (SCOTLAND) ACT 1973

• LAND TENURE REFORM (SCOTLAND) ACT 1974
• LAND REGISTRATION (SCOTLAND) ACT 1979
• SALE OF GOODS ACT 1979
• MATRIMONIAL HOMES (FAMILY PROTECTION) (SCOTLAND) ACT 1981
• FAMILY LAW (SCOTLAND) ACT 1985
• COMPANIES ACT 1985
• LAW REFORM (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) ACT 1985
• INSOLVENCY ACT 1986
• REQUIREMENTS OF WRITING (SCOTLAND) ACT 1995
• CONTRACT (SCOTLAND) ACT 1997
• ABOLITION OF FEUDAL TENURE ETC (SCOTLAND) ACT 2000
• MORTGAGE RIGHTS (SCOTLAND) ACT 2001
• LAND REFORM (SCOTLAND) ACT 2003
• TITLE CONDITIONS (SCOTLAND) ACT 2003
• TENEMENTS (SCOTLAND) ACT 2004

• HOUSING (SCOTLAND) ACT 2006
• FAMILY LAW (SCOTLAND) ACT 2006
• COMPANIES ACT 2006
• BANKRUPTCY AND DILIGENCE ETC (SCOTLAND) ACT 2007
• LAND REGISTRATION ETC (SCOTLAND) ACT 2012
• LEGAL WRITINGS (COUNTERPARTS AND DELIVERY) (SCOTLAND)
• CONSUMER RIGHTS ACT 2015
• LAND REFORM (SCOTLAND) ACT 2016
• BANKRUPTCY (SCOTLAND) ACT 2016
• OTHER MATERIALS
• MATRIMONIAL HOMES (FORM OF CONSENT) (SCOTLAND)REGULATIONS 1982*
• TITLE CONDITIONS (SCOTLAND) ACT 2003 (CONSERVATION BODIES)
• TITLE CONDITIONS (SCOTLAND) ACT 2003 (RURAL HOUSING BODIES) ORDER 2004

• TENEMENTS (SCOTLAND) ACT 2004 (PRESCRIBED RISKS) ORDER 2007
• TITLE CONDITIONS (SCOTLAND) ACT 2003 (DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT SCHEME) ORDER 2009
• APPLICATIONS BY CREDITORS (PRE-ACTION REQUIREMENTS)(SCOTLAND) ORDER 2010
• LAND REGISTER RULES ETC (SCOTLAND) REGULATIONS 2014
• ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS (SCOTLAND) REGULATIONS 2014
• EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
• PART II TRUSTS AND SUCCESSION
• ACT OF SEDERUNT OF 28 FEBRUARY 1662
• ACT ANENT EXECUTORS-CREDITORS
• TRUSTS (SCOTLAND) ACT 1921
• TRUSTS (SCOTLAND) ACT 1961
• WILLS ACT 1963
• SUCCESSION (SCOTLAND) ACT 1964 (1964, c 41)

• LAW REFORM (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) ACT 1966
• LAW REFORM (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) ACT 1968
• PRESUMPTION OF DEATH (SCOTLAND) ACT 1977
• FORFEITURE ACT 1982
• LAW REFORM (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) ACT 1990
• CIVIL PARTNERSHIP ACT 2004
• CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005
• FAMILY LAW (SCOTLAND) ACT 2006
• SUCCESSION (SCOTLAND) ACT 2016
• SUCCESSION (SCOTLAND) ACT 2016 (COMMENCEMENT, TRANSITIONAL AND SAVING PROVISIONS) REGULATIONS 2016
• INDEX OF STATUTES

• List of Plates Acknowledgements Author's Note Introduction: The Lawn is Singing
• Chapter 1 The Lawn Discourse
• Chapter 2 Keeping the Lawn
• Chapter 3 Planning the Modern Lawn
• Chapter 4 No Fucking up/on the Lawn Conclusion: Saddening the Green Notes References Index.
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What does the lawn want? To be watered, fertilised, mowed, admired, fretted over, ignored? This unusual question serves as a starting point for Civilising Grass: The Art of the Lawn on the South African Highveld, an unexpected and often disconcerting critique of one of the most common and familiar landscapes in South Africa. The lawn, Jonathan Cane argues, is not quite as innocent as we might think. Besides the fact that lawns suck up scarce water, consume chemicals, displace indigenous plants and reduce biodiversity, they are also part of a colonial lineage of dispossession and violence. They reduce the political problem of land to the aesthetic question of landscape, thereby obscuring issues of ownership, redress, belonging and labour. The question then becomes: Who takes care of whose lawn, in what clothes, under what conditions and for what reward? Civilising Grass offers a detailed reading of artistic, literary and architectural lawns between 1886 and 2017. The eclectic archive includes plans, poems, maps, gardening blogs, adverts, ethnographies and ephemera, as well as literature by Koos Prinsloo, Marlene van Niekerk and Ivan Vladislavic. In addition, the book includes colour reproductions of lawn artworks by David Goldblatt, Lungiswa Gqunta, Pieter Hugo, Anton Kannemeyer, Sabelo Mlangeni, Moses Tladi and Kemang Wa Lehulere. This book shows that even if the enchantment of a green, flat and soft lawn is almost universal, there are also unexpected moments when alternatives present themselves, occasions when people reject the politeness of the lawn, and situations in which we might glimpse a possible time after the lawn. Drawing on theory and conceptual tools from interdisciplinary fields such as ecocriticism, queer theory, art history and postcolonial studies, Civilising Grass offers the first sustained investigation of the lawn in Africa and contributes to the growing conversation about the complex relationships between humans and non-humans on the continent.
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• Introduction.
• 1. Land Settlement: Progression and Pattern.
• 2. Settlement Polices: Reluctant Expansion.
• 3. Aboriginal Land: Recognition and Protection.
• 4. Chinese Practice: Transforming Aboriginal Land Tenure.
• 5. Aborigines' Efforts: A Losing Battle.
• 6. Japanese Colonisation: New Tenure under the Modern Law.
• Conclusion: Land Tenure, Colonisation, and Legal Tradition.
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The dispossession of indigenous peoples by conquest regimes remains a pressing issue. This book, unlike most other books on the subject, contrasts two different colonial administrations - first the Chinese Qing Empire, then, from 1895, the Japanese. It shows how, under the Chinese legal system, the Qing employed the Chinese legal system to manage the relationship between the increasing numbers of Han Chinese settlers and the indigenous peoples, and how, although the Qing regime refrained from taking actions to transform aboriginal land tenure, nevertheless Chinese settlers were able to manipulate aboriginal land tenure to their advantage. It goes on to examine the very different approach of the Japanese colonial administration, which following the Meiji Restoration of 1868 had begun to adopt a Western legal framework, demonstrating how this was intentionally much more intrusive, and how the Japanese modernized legal framework significantly disrupted aboriginal land tenure. Based on extensive original research, the book provides important insights into colonisation, different legal traditions and the impact of colonial settlement on indigenous peoples.
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• Cover; Title page; Copyright page; About the Contributors; Contents; Chapter One
• Theorising Displacement, Elimination and Replacement: An Introduction to Decolonising Land Issues; Introduction; Spirit Possessed but Materially Dispossessed? The Colonial Legitimation of the Displacement of Africans; Displacements from Nation States to Virtual Spaces and Eliminating Ownership Rights over National Resources; Chapter Outlines; References

• Chapter Two
• Land Dispossession and the Genesis of Crises in Zimbabwe: Implications for Sustainable Livelihoods and People-centred Development as Depicted in Selected Zimbabwean Fictional NarrativesIntroduction; Labyrinthine link between Literary Depictions and Theoretical Frameworks-Grounding vis-à-vis deeply-held Land Perceptions/Prejudices; The Post-2000 Land Conundrum and Crisis in Selected Narratives: Appreciation of Crises, Acrimony and Sustainable Development; Conclusion; References

• Chapter Three
• 'Mapfupa angu achamuka ' (My bones will rise again): Spirituality, History, Memory and Ancestry in Land Ownership 'Debates' in ZimbabweIntroduction; Liberation War: Multidimensional Concepts of Land among the Shona and/or Zimbabwean People; The Role of Spirit Mediums and Ancestors in Life amongst the Shonas; The Link between Land and Ancestry: Spiritualism and the Liberation Wars in Zimbabwe; When the Sins of the 'Ancestors' Haunt the Grandchildren: Politics of Entitlement, The Third Chimurenga and the Discourse of Land Appropriation Without Compensation; Conclusion

• The Mother Tongue and Identity in Chirikure Chirikure's RukuvhuteThe Land and Umbilical Cord in Chirikure Chirikure's Poetry; The Land and the Umbilical Cord in Chirikure's Rukuvhute; Post-colonial Hybridity and Identity in Rukuvhute; Conclusion; References; Chapter Six
• Discourses of Colonial Displacement: The Impetus of Selected Historical Novels; Introduction; Theoretical Framework; Humans and Environmental Degradation; Nature as an Agent of Destruction; Convergence of Post-colonial and Environmental Issues; General Colonialism in Africa; Power Structures

• Theorising displacement, elimination and replacement of indigenous people: an introduction to decolonising land issues / Artwell Nhemachena, Jairos Kangira & Nelson Mlambo
• Land dispossession and the genesis of crises in Zimbabwe: implications for sustainable livelihoods and people-centred development as depicted in selected Zimbabwean fictional narratives / Ruby Magosvongwe
• 'Mapfuma angu achamuka' (My bones will rise again): spirituality, history, memory and ancestry in land ownership 'Debates' in Zimbabwe / Collen Sabao
• Pegging out claims in space and place: the theme of land redistribution in the music of Simon Chimbetu / Charles Pfukwa
• Of mothers, umbilical cords and tongues: land ownership, language and identity in Chirikure Chirikure's Rukuvhute / Angeline Mavis Madongonda & Enna Sukutai Gudhlanga
• Discourse of colonial displacement: the impetus of selected historical novels / Colleta Kandemiri & Nelson Mlambo
• Special marginalisation: (Re)reading Musaemura Zimunya's gendered space and place in Country Dawns and City Lights / Angeline Mavis Madongonda
• The San people of Zimbabwe: decades after land dispossession / Shuvai Chingwe
• Interrogation of the nexus between land restitution and poverty alleviation in contemparary Zimbabwe / Blessing Makunike
• The gendered dispossession of land in colonial Rhodesia: an analysis of Thomson Kumbirai Tsodzo's Pafunge and Patrick Chakaipa's Dzasukwa Mwana-Asina-Hembe / Enna Sukutai Gudhlanga
• Fictionalising resistance to land repossession: political economies of displacement and the imagination of a better Zimbabwe / Nelson Mlambo & Jairos Kangira

• Theorising displacement, elimination and replacement of indigenous people: an introduction to decolonising land issues / Artwell Nhemachena, Jairos Kangira & Nelson Mlambo
• Land dispossession and the genesis of crises in Zimbabwe: implications for sustainable livelihoods and people-centred development as depicted in selected Zimbabwean fictional narratives / Ruby Magosvongwe
• 'Mapfuma angu achamuka' (My bones will rise again): spirituality, history, memory and ancestry in land ownership 'Debates' in Zimbabwe / Collen Sabao
• Pegging out claims in space and place: the theme of land redistribution in the music of Simon Chimbetu / Charles Pfukwa
• Of mothers, umbilical cords and tongues: land ownership, language and identity in Chirikure Chirikure's Rukuvhute / Angeline Mavis Madongonda & Enna Sukutai Gudhlanga
• Discourse of colonial displacement: the impetus of selected historical novels / Colleta Kandemiri & Nelson Mlambo
• Special marginalisation: (Re)reading Musaemura Zimunya's gendered space and place in Country Dawns and City Lights / Angeline Mavis Madongonda
• The San people of Zimbabwe: decades after land dispossession / Shuvai Chingwe
• Interrogation of the nexus between land restitution and poverty alleviation in contemparary Zimbabwe / Blessing Makunike
• The gendered dispossession of land in colonial Rhodesia: an analysis of Thomson Kumbirai Tsodzo's Pafunge and Patrick Chakaipa's Dzasukwa Mwana-Asina-Hembe / Enna Sukutai Gudhlanga
• Fictionalising resistance to land repossession: political economies of displacement and the imagination of a better Zimbabwe / Nelson Mlambo & Jairos Kangira.

• Introduction: Land, Gender, and Justice on the Eve of Peace
• Transition: Back to normal life?
• Dispossession: A twofold gendered history
• Friction: Land restitution at work
• Transformation: The elusive future
• Conclusion: Linking land, justice and gender to the peace accord
• Epilogue: Women protagonists of the peace accord on gender and land

Fifty years of violence perpetrated by guerrillas, paramilitaries, and official armed forces in Colombia displaced more than six million people. In 2011, as part of a larger transitional justice process, the Colombian government approved a law that would restore land rights for those who lost their homes during the conflicts. However, this restitution process lacked appropriate provisions for rural women beyond granting them a formal property title. Drawing on decades of research, Elusive Justice demonstrates how these women continue to face numerous adverse circumstances, including geographical isolation, encroaching capitalist enterprises, and a dearth of social and institutional support. Donny Meertens contends that women's advocacy organizations must have a prominent role in overseeing these transitional policies in order to create a more just society. By bringing together the underresearched topic of property repayment and the pursuit of gender justice in peacebuilding, these findings have broad significance elsewhere in the world.
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• Introduction: Land, Gender, and Justice on the Eve of Peace
• Transition: Back to normal life?
• Dispossession: A twofold gendered history
• Friction: Land restitution at work
• Transformation: The elusive future
• Conclusion: Linking land, justice and gender to the peace accord
• Epilogue: Women protagonists of the peace accord on gender and land

Fifty years of violence perpetrated by guerrillas, paramilitaries, and official armed forces in Colombia displaced more than six million people. In 2011, as part of a larger transitional justice process, the Colombian government approved a law that would restore land rights for those who lost their homes during the conflicts. However, this restitution process lacked appropriate provisions for rural women beyond granting them a formal property title. Drawing on decades of research, Elusive Justice demonstrates how these women continue to face numerous adverse circumstances, including geographical isolation, encroaching capitalist enterprises, and a dearth of social and institutional support. Donny Meertens contends that women's advocacy organizations must have a prominent role in overseeing these transitional policies in order to create a more just society. By bringing together the underresearched topic of property repayment and the pursuit of gender justice in peacebuilding, these findings have broad significance elsewhere in the world.
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• Contents and Abstracts1Introduction chapter abstractThis chapter describes the series of events by which a local struggle became a national event. It introduces the primary interlocutors and takes the reader to three different villages where the author conducted most of the interviews. These villages varied between the oldest predominantly Christian village, another predominantly Muslim village and a third largely mixed Muslim-Christian village in Okara district. It introduces the different occupational castes, the traditional forms of solidarity, and how these bonds of solidarity changed with the rise of the tenants' mobilization. It outlines arguments on the spatial history of rights, the provisional solidarities enabled by social movements, and the varied effect of NGOs and urban activists on rural grassroots mobilizations.
• 2Politics as Process in Okara Military Farms chapter abstractThis chapter describes the political negotiation, ruptures, and innovations that allowed disparate groups of tenant farmers to come together across caste, gender, and religious differences and mobilize around a class identity as sharecroppers. The ethnographic analysis of AMP mobilization challenges the bifurcation of social movements between the "the politics of distribution" and "the politics of recognition." This chapter argues that the fate of social movements is forged by how they negotiate both sides of power. It argues that peasant movements foreground different concepts of political possibilities from their own alternative and deeply rooted traditions as refracted through social histories. Hence, AMP does not presume an organic, essentialist position that is sometimes projected onto indigenous or peasant communities, nor does it posit a utopian open future. The politics of AMP are provisional, based around tenants' ability to translate customary rights and obligations into political action.
• Chapter 3: The Afterlife of Colonial Infrastructure chapter abstractThis chapter looks at the regional history of canal colonization and provides a context for the establishment of military farms at the turn of 20th century Punjab. The canal irrigation projects ushered in a new era of regional modernity in Punjab with far reaching consequences for the relationship between land and people in this region. This chapter analyzes the formation of a distinct regional modernity in Punjab that brought the colonial state and peasantry in a direct relationship. It develops the classic theory of gift exchange to analyze the highly personalized relationship between people and colonial institutions that was created through large infrastructure projects that worked through dual idioms of modern technology and customary identities. This
• chapter illustrates how these dual links are appropriated and repurposed by tenant farmers to make claims over land.
• Chapter 4: What Remains Buried Under Property? chapter abstractThis chapter examines the moral economy of land rights and the broader understanding of land rights politics as they are understood by different members of AMP. Land is one of the most important yet overlooked elements of social movements because it is often regarded as an economic resource, or exclusively as the object of contestation. However, the variation of land settlements, land relations, and the evolution of the property regime showcase varied cultural understandings of rights, value, and political subjectivity that is shaped by different conceptions of land rights. This abstract question also became an important source of discussion for the tenant farmers once they were able to occupy and cultivate their lands.
• 5Movement and Mobilization chapter abstractThis chapter describes the subaltern meaning of land rights, which is different from the conception of rights based on citizenship and/or property ownership. This chapter argues that the central force of a social movement is ontological: it ushers a new way of seeing and relating to the world. Social movements have the ability to take particular issues and universalize them as a form knowledge and praxis. For instance, the AMP enlarged tenants' objections to cash contract farming into a discussion of land reform, citizenship rights, democracy, and human rights in Pakistan by relating them to a history of the hardships of settlement, the experience of partition, and the poverty of the sharecropping regime. This provisional political identity is built around a narrative that allowed the tenant farmers to bridge gender, caste, and religious differences. However, this provisional source of solidarity grew weaker as the tenants made some gains.
• 6Solidarities, Fault Lines, and the Scale of Struggle chapter abstractThis chapter examines the problems faced by AMP as the tenants' leadership allied with urban activists, civil society groups, and NGOs to gain publicity and visibility for their struggle. The aim here is to understand how scalability figures into subaltern politics of survival. The AMP subaltern and highly local articulations of land rights were represented in the abstract and universal framework of "Rights" favored by NGOs and "Class struggle" advocated by Left activists. These organization helped increase the visibility of AMP but they also created strong differences between the tenant farmers causing a split in the movement.
• 7Coda chapter abstractThe conclusion summarizes the author's approach to the study of AMP as a relationship between land (spatiality), rights, and political subjectivity in Punjab. Rather than looking at the settlement of the Okara military farms or the rise of peasant mobilization in isolation, the author demonstrates the relational aspects of technology, territory, identity, and power in shifting relations of rule and political agency.
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The military coup that brought General Pervez Musharraf to power as Pakistan's tenth president resulted in the abolition of a century-old sharecropping system that was rife with corruption. In its place the military regime implemented a market reform policy of cash contract farming. Ostensibly meant to improve living conditions for tenant farmers, the new system, instead, mobilized one of the largest, most successful land rights movements in South Asia-still active today. In The Ethics of Staying, Mubbashir A. Rizvi presents an original framework for understanding this major social movement, called the Anjuman Mazarin Punjab (AMP). This group of Christian and Muslim tenant sharecroppers, against all odds, successfully resisted Pakistan military's bid to monetize state-owned land, making a powerful moral case for land rights by invoking local claims to land and a broader vision for subsistence rights. The case of AMP provides a unique lens through which to examine state and society relations in Pakistan, one that bridges literatures from subaltern studies, military and colonial power, and the language of claim-making. Rizvi also offers a glimpse of Pakistan that challenges its standard framing as a hub of radical militancy, by opening a window into to the everyday struggles that are often obscured in the West's terror discourse.
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• Contents and Abstracts1Introduction chapter abstractThis chapter describes the series of events by which a local struggle became a national event. It introduces the primary interlocutors and takes the reader to three different villages where the author conducted most of the interviews. These villages varied between the oldest predominantly Christian village, another predominantly Muslim village and a third largely mixed Muslim-Christian village in Okara district. It introduces the different occupational castes, the traditional forms of solidarity, and how these bonds of solidarity changed with the rise of the tenants' mobilization. It outlines arguments on the spatial history of rights, the provisional solidarities enabled by social movements, and the varied effect of NGOs and urban activists on rural grassroots mobilizations.
• 2Politics as Process in Okara Military Farms chapter abstractThis chapter describes the political negotiation, ruptures, and innovations that allowed disparate groups of tenant farmers to come together across caste, gender, and religious differences and mobilize around a class identity as sharecroppers. The ethnographic analysis of AMP mobilization challenges the bifurcation of social movements between the "the politics of distribution" and "the politics of recognition." This chapter argues that the fate of social movements is forged by how they negotiate both sides of power. It argues that peasant movements foreground different concepts of political possibilities from their own alternative and deeply rooted traditions as refracted through social histories. Hence, AMP does not presume an organic, essentialist position that is sometimes projected onto indigenous or peasant communities, nor does it posit a utopian open future. The politics of AMP are provisional, based around tenants' ability to translate customary rights and obligations into political action.
• Chapter 3: The Afterlife of Colonial Infrastructure chapter abstractThis chapter looks at the regional history of canal colonization and provides a context for the establishment of military farms at the turn of 20th century Punjab. The canal irrigation projects ushered in a new era of regional modernity in Punjab with far reaching consequences for the relationship between land and people in this region. This chapter analyzes the formation of a distinct regional modernity in Punjab that brought the colonial state and peasantry in a direct relationship. It develops the classic theory of gift exchange to analyze the highly personalized relationship between people and colonial institutions that was created through large infrastructure projects that worked through dual idioms of modern technology and customary identities. This
• chapter illustrates how these dual links are appropriated and repurposed by tenant farmers to make claims over land.
• Chapter 4: What Remains Buried Under Property? chapter abstractThis chapter examines the moral economy of land rights and the broader understanding of land rights politics as they are understood by different members of AMP. Land is one of the most important yet overlooked elements of social movements because it is often regarded as an economic resource, or exclusively as the object of contestation. However, the variation of land settlements, land relations, and the evolution of the property regime showcase varied cultural understandings of rights, value, and political subjectivity that is shaped by different conceptions of land rights. This abstract question also became an important source of discussion for the tenant farmers once they were able to occupy and cultivate their lands.
• 5Movement and Mobilization chapter abstractThis chapter describes the subaltern meaning of land rights, which is different from the conception of rights based on citizenship and/or property ownership. This chapter argues that the central force of a social movement is ontological: it ushers a new way of seeing and relating to the world. Social movements have the ability to take particular issues and universalize them as a form knowledge and praxis. For instance, the AMP enlarged tenants' objections to cash contract farming into a discussion of land reform, citizenship rights, democracy, and human rights in Pakistan by relating them to a history of the hardships of settlement, the experience of partition, and the poverty of the sharecropping regime. This provisional political identity is built around a narrative that allowed the tenant farmers to bridge gender, caste, and religious differences. However, this provisional source of solidarity grew weaker as the tenants made some gains.
• 6Solidarities, Fault Lines, and the Scale of Struggle chapter abstractThis chapter examines the problems faced by AMP as the tenants' leadership allied with urban activists, civil society groups, and NGOs to gain publicity and visibility for their struggle. The aim here is to understand how scalability figures into subaltern politics of survival. The AMP subaltern and highly local articulations of land rights were represented in the abstract and universal framework of "Rights" favored by NGOs and "Class struggle" advocated by Left activists. These organization helped increase the visibility of AMP but they also created strong differences between the tenant farmers causing a split in the movement.
• 7Coda chapter abstractThe conclusion summarizes the author's approach to the study of AMP as a relationship between land (spatiality), rights, and political subjectivity in Punjab. Rather than looking at the settlement of the Okara military farms or the rise of peasant mobilization in isolation, the author demonstrates the relational aspects of technology, territory, identity, and power in shifting relations of rule and political agency.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

The military coup that brought General Pervez Musharraf to power as Pakistan's tenth president resulted in the abolition of a century-old sharecropping system that was rife with corruption. In its place the military regime implemented a market reform policy of cash contract farming. Ostensibly meant to improve living conditions for tenant farmers, the new system, instead, mobilized one of the largest, most successful land rights movements in South Asia-still active today. In The Ethics of Staying, Mubbashir A. Rizvi presents an original framework for understanding this major social movement, called the Anjuman Mazarin Punjab (AMP). This group of Christian and Muslim tenant sharecroppers, against all odds, successfully resisted Pakistan military's bid to monetize state-owned land, making a powerful moral case for land rights by invoking local claims to land and a broader vision for subsistence rights. The case of AMP provides a unique lens through which to examine state and society relations in Pakistan, one that bridges literatures from subaltern studies, military and colonial power, and the language of claim-making. Rizvi also offers a glimpse of Pakistan that challenges its standard framing as a hub of radical militancy, by opening a window into to the everyday struggles that are often obscured in the West's terror discourse.
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• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part I: The Historical Setting
• 1. The English Land Question in Historical Perspective
• 2. Land Reform Movements Before 1914
• Part II: The Land Question and Taxation of Land Values 1914 to 1939
• 3. The Impact of The War and The Spread of Owner-Occupation
• 4. The Rise of Town Planning and The Demise of Site Value Rating
• Part III: The Political Conflict Over Landed Property Rights 1942 to 1979
• 5. The Impact of The War on Town and Country
• 6. Tensions in The War-Time Coalition Government
• 7. The Post War Settlement
• 8. Continuing Battles Over Compensation and Betterment
• Part IV: The Land Question and The Housing Crisis 1979 to
• 2017.
• 9. The Triumph of Private Property and Future Options for Land Reform
• 10. Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index.
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Based on a mixture of primary historical research and secondary sources, this book explores the reasons for the failure of the state in England during the twentieth century to regulate, tax, and control the market in land for the common or public good. It is maintained that this created the circumstances in which private property relationships had triumphed by the end of the century. Explaining a complex field of legislation and policy in accessible terms, the book concludes by asking what type of land reform might be relevant in the twenty-first century to address the current housing crisis, which seen in its widest context, has become the new land question of the modern era.
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