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Kastom, Property and Ideology : Land Transformations in Melanesia.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: State, Society and Governance in Melanesia SeriesPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (434 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781760461065
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Kastom, Property and IdeologyDDC classification:
  • 333.30995000000001
LOC classification:
  • HD1120.9.K378 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Tables -- Figures -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Powers of Exclusion in Melanesia -- Urban Melanesia: The Challenges of Managing Land, Modernity and Tradition -- Urban Land in Solomon Islands: Powers of Exclusion and Counter‑Exclusion -- 'There's Nothing Better than Land': A Migrant Group's Strategies for Accessing Informal Settlement Land in Port Moresby -- Informal Land Markets in Papua New Guinea -- The Formation of a Land Grab Policy Network in Papua New Guinea -- Oil Palm Development and Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Papua New Guinea -- The Political Ramifications of Papua New Guinea's Commission of Inquiry -- Urban Land Grabbing by Political Elites: Exploring the Political Economy of Land and the Challenges of Regulation -- Making the Invisible Seen: Putting Women's Rights on Vanuatu's Land Reform Agenda -- From Colonial Intrusions to 'Intimate Exclusions': Contesting Legal Title and 'Chiefly Title' to Land in Epi, Vanuatu -- Landownership as Exclusion -- The Politics of Property: Gender, Land and Political Authority in Solomon Islands -- Afterword: Land Transformations and Exclusion across Regions.
Summary: This volume aims to test the application of one particular theoretical framework to the Melanesian version of this phenomenon, which is the framework put forward by Derek Hall, Philip Hirsch and Tania Murray Li in their 2011 book, 'Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia'.
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Intro -- Tables -- Figures -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Powers of Exclusion in Melanesia -- Urban Melanesia: The Challenges of Managing Land, Modernity and Tradition -- Urban Land in Solomon Islands: Powers of Exclusion and Counter‑Exclusion -- 'There's Nothing Better than Land': A Migrant Group's Strategies for Accessing Informal Settlement Land in Port Moresby -- Informal Land Markets in Papua New Guinea -- The Formation of a Land Grab Policy Network in Papua New Guinea -- Oil Palm Development and Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Papua New Guinea -- The Political Ramifications of Papua New Guinea's Commission of Inquiry -- Urban Land Grabbing by Political Elites: Exploring the Political Economy of Land and the Challenges of Regulation -- Making the Invisible Seen: Putting Women's Rights on Vanuatu's Land Reform Agenda -- From Colonial Intrusions to 'Intimate Exclusions': Contesting Legal Title and 'Chiefly Title' to Land in Epi, Vanuatu -- Landownership as Exclusion -- The Politics of Property: Gender, Land and Political Authority in Solomon Islands -- Afterword: Land Transformations and Exclusion across Regions.

This volume aims to test the application of one particular theoretical framework to the Melanesian version of this phenomenon, which is the framework put forward by Derek Hall, Philip Hirsch and Tania Murray Li in their 2011 book, 'Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia'.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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