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Record Nr.

UNINA9910958342803321

Autore

Chesters Timothy

Titolo

Land Rights

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-19-156270-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Collana

Oxford Amnesty Lectures

Disciplina

333.3

Soggetti

Land tenure

Business & Economics

Real Estate, Housing & Land Use

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Introduction; 1. Land: Intangible or Tangible Property?; Response; 2. Indigenous Peoples and International Human Rights; Response; 3. Standing in Deep Time;  Standing in the Law: A Non-Indigenous Australian Perspective on Land Rights, Land Wrongs, and Self-Determination; Response; 4. If this is your Land, where are your Stories?; Response; 5. Whose World is it Anyway?; Response; 6. Strategies of the Poor and some Problems of Land Reform in the Eastern Cape, South Africa: An Argument against Recommunalization; Endnotes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O

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Sommario/riassunto

What do indigenous people mean when they invoke their collective right to land? How are national governments, and international law, to arbitrate between them and property-owners and corporations? Experts from diverse fields and organisations - anthropologists, historians, lawyers, conservationists, and campaigners - debate 'Land Rights'. - ;Indigenous peoples and governments, industrialists and ecologists all use - or have at some stage to confront - the language of land rights. That language raises as many questions as it answers. Rights of the land or rights to the land? Rights of the indiv