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050 00 $aHD966$b.L35 2011
082 00 $a303.6096$223
245 00 $aLand, law and politics in Africa :$bmediating conflict and reshaping the state /$cedited by Jan Abbink, Mirjam de Bruijn.
260 $aLeiden ;$aBoston :$bBrill,$c2011.
263 $a1212
300 $ap. cm.
490 1 $aAfrican dynamics ;$vv. 10
546 $aContributions in English or French.
500 $a"This project was envisaged as a testimony to the inspirational legacy of Professor Gerti Hesseling (1946-2009), the Dutch legal scholar and Africanist"--Introduction.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
500 $aIncludes bibliography of the works of Gerti Hesseling.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Land, law and conflict mediation in Africa / Jan Abbink -- Partenariat et interdisciplinarite: la voie alternative de Gerti Hesseling et du LASDEL / Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan & Mahaman Tidjani Alou -- Cultural models of power in Africa / Walter van Beek -- Human rights in the traditional legal system of the Nkoya people of Zambia / Wim M.J. van Binsbergen -- 'Sons of the soil': autochthony and its ambiguities in Africa and Europe / Peter Geschiere -- How can Africa develop? Reflections on theories, concepts and realities / Patrick Chabal -- L'economie sociale et solidaire pour stimuler le developpement ascendant et endogene / Abdou Salam Fall -- Land conflicts in Senegal revisited: continuities and emerging dynamics / Mayke Kaag, Yaram Gaye & Marieke Kruis -- 'More punitive penalties should be given to urban farmers': laws and politics surrounding urban agriculture in Eldoret, Kenya / Romborah R. Simiyu & Dick Foeken -- Settling border conflicts in Africa peacefully: lessons learned from the Bakassi dispute between Cameroon and Nigeria / Piet Konings -- Democracy deferred: understanding elections and the role of donors in Ethiopia / Jan Abbink -- La production d'un nouveau constitutionnalisme en Afrique : internationalisation et regionalisation du droit constitutionnel / Babacar Kante -- Le juge constitutionnel et la construction de l'etat de droit au Senegal / Fatima Diallo -- Sur les traces du droit vivant dans le labyrinthe du droit foncier et des pratiques locales au Mali / Moussa Djire -- Effectuating normative change in customary legal systems: an end to 'widow chasing' in northern Namibia? / Janine Ubink -- Decentralization and the articulation of local and regional politics in central Chad / Han van Dijk -- Conflict mobility and the search for peace in Africa / Mirjam de Bruijn & Egosha E. Osaghae.
650 0 $aLand tenure$zAfrica.
650 0 $aLand use, Rural$xGovernment policy$zAfrica.
650 0 $aLaw$zAfrica.
650 0 $aCustomary law$zAfrica.
650 0 $aEconomic development$zAfrica.
650 0 $aConflict management$zAfrica.
700 1 $aAbbink, J.
700 1 $aBruijn, Mirjam de,$d1962-
700 1 $aHesseling, Gerti.
830 0 $aAfrican dynamics ;$v10.