Local politics and the dynamics of property in Africa / Christian Lund.
2010
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Author
Title
Local politics and the dynamics of property in Africa / Christian Lund.
Published
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Call Number
HD1022.Z63 L86 2010
Former Call Number
Gha 410 L972 2010
Edition
First paperback edition.
ISBN
9780521148511 (pbk.)
0521148510 (pbk.)
0521148510 (pbk.)
Description
xiii, 200 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)520729915
Note
Originally published: 2008.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-196) and index.
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Table of Contents
List of Maps, Figures, and Tables
vi
Acknowledgments
vii
Abbreviations
xi
1.
Introduction
1
2.
"This Situation Is Incongruous in the Extreme": The History of Land Policies in the Upper Regions of Ghana
25
3.
Who Owns Bolgatanga? The Revival of the Earthpriest and Emerging Tensions over Property
47
4.
Seizing Opportunities: Chieftaincy, Land, and Local Administration
68
5.
Settled Facts or Facts to Settle: Land Conflicts under Institutional Uncertainty
90
6.
"Bawku Is Still Volatile": Ethnopolitical Conflict and State Recognition
108
7.
The Rent of Nonenforcement: Access to Forest Resources
134
8.
Small Dams and Fluid Tenure
156
9.
Conclusion
174
References
183
Index
197