Struggles over Land and Authority in Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2098261 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sara Berry (0000-0002-2146-2816, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 105-125 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-0206 • E-ISSN: 1555-2462 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/asr.2017.96 |
| OpenAlex | W2761759889 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
| References cited | 57 |
This article reviews major changes in policies and practices of land allocation and use in sub-Saharan Africa since ca 1990, using two comparative case studies to illustrate their implications for relations between local and national authority. One case contrasts Ghana, where intense local conflicts over land and authority did not translate into political conflict at the national level, with Côte d'Ivoire, where they did. The other compares political strategies and the influence of traditional chiefs in Ghana and South Africa
Archaeology · Development economics · Economics · Geography · Land tenure · Local authority · Political authority · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Traditional authority · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Land Rights and Reforms · Law · Public Administration
Land conflicts and state-society relations in Somaliland
Land matters, gender, and de facto authority in (un)expected places
Land governance in Ghana and its implications for inclusive city development
Land tenure conflict and agribusiness development in sub-Saharan Africa
Property Institutions and State Capacity
The Contested Politics of Intergenerational Land and Gender Justice in Northern Ghana
Customary succession and re-issuance of land documents in Ghana
Land and grazing disputes and overlapping authorities in Namibia
Investment impacts of gendered land rights in customary tenure systems
Plantations, women, and food security in Africa
Contested commons
Registration of private interests in land in a community lands policy setting
The ‘new’ African customary land tenure. Characteristic, features and policy implications of a new paradigm
Adapted institutional analysis and development framework for understanding customary land institutions in sub-Saharan Africa – A case study from Nigeria
Powers of exclusion and counter-exclusion
Resolving land conflicts through Alternative Dispute Resolution
Building on synergies
Commodification of family lands and the changing dynamics of access in Ghana
Chiefs do not talk law, most of them talk power.” Traditional authorities in conflicts over land grabbing in Ghana
Partial Protections
Drivers of conflict over customary land in the Middle Drâa Valley of Morocco
Politics of rural land acquisition in Africa
Neglecting informality? – Rethinking planning in sub-Saharan African cities
Colonial Rule and the Power of Chiefs over Land Resources
Balancing customary and statutory governance to sustain informality in Ghana's public spaces
Time and title deeds in post-reform agrarian Kenya
Neotraditional authority contested
Global Forces, Rural Radicalism, and the Dual Transformation of Urban and Rural Protest in Africa
Cattle Rustling and Competing Land Claims
Land Reform for a Landless Chief in South Africa
When Land Becomes a Burden
Protecting Smallholder Land Rights in Mozambique, 1997-2017
A bed called home
Our continent, our future
Africa's Land Rush
Contemporary West African States
Accumulation and Conspicuous Consumption
Property and Political Order in Africa
Ethnicity, Inc.
Chiefs in South Africa
African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979–1999
Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa
Land Tenure and Property Rights
The surplus people
Land and society in contemporary Africa
Negotiating property in Africa
No Condition Is Permanent
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
Democracy Compromised
Africa's Development in Historical Perspective
Power in Ghana from Early Colonial Times to the 1990s
Islamic Society and State Power in Senegal
Black Mountain
Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa
Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya
Contemporary Processes of Large-Scale Land Acquisition in Sub-Saharan Africa
Class, race and gender
Ethnicity and the Making of History in Northern Ghana
Les rapports entre générations ont une histoire
Contemporary West African states
Conflicts over land and threats to customary tenure in Africa
Colonialism and Underdevelopment in Ghana
A Bed Called Home
One Chief, One Vote
West Africa's Worst Year of Famine
In The Land of the Chiefs
The Evolutionary Theory of Land Rights as Applied to Sub-Saharan Africa
Question foncière et construction nationale en Côte d'Ivoire
Mining and 'Traditional Communities' in South Africa's 'Platinum Belt
Citizen and Subject
Colonialism and Underdevelopment in Ghana
Men Own the Fields, Women Own the Crops
Land and territory
For the use and common benefit of all Nigerians
Inequality and Social Conflict Over Land in Africa
The Business of Being Bafokeng
Debating the Land Question in Africa
Land Regimes and the Structure of Politics
| Unique citing works | 32 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 31 |