Embodied histories
Exploring law's temporality in relation to land in Botswana
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 14799875 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Anne Griffiths (0000-0002-1197-4180, University of Edinburgh, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2014 |
| Volumen | 46 |
| Número | 1 |
| Páginas | 37-59 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2014-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0732-9113 • E-ISSN: 2305-9931 |
| Editorial | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07329113.2014.886866 |
| OpenAlex | W2020092175 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 5 |
| Referencias citadas | 24 |
This paper addresses the temporalities of law in the context of everyday lives and people's access to and control over land in Botswana. Based on the life histories of two family groups, the Makokwes and the Radipatis, over several generations, it demonstrates how individuals’ access to resources alters and reconfigures in tune with household and family cycles across space and time, leading to varying life trajectories. These trajectories demonstrate how these related families come to experience different life worlds that have an impact on their access to and control over land. Such life histories are important because they foreground the ways in which what is happening in the present links back to the past and points forward to the future, in ways that undermine any notion of a unilinear development or concept of progress. They also highlight how life courses in the present have emerged from complex, past histories that have a bearing on their potential for future development. This produces very different experiences of temporality for individuals and families linked into the networks of which they form part. Such an approach reveals the temporalities of geometries of power and social relations, in which law plays an important role. These processes that are constantly in the making highlight the politically charged dynamics of time, space and place that provide both the limits and potential for action through multi-layered domains giving rise to differing understandings about the regulation of land in Botswana today
Action (physics · Context (archaeology · Embodied cognition · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Everyday life · Geography · Political science · Relation (database · Sociology · Temporalities · Temporality · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Land Rights and Reforms · Law
Timespace
Disabling Globalization
On the Complexities of Time and Temporality
Dialogue Between Past and Present
Land rights for marginalized ethnic groups in Botswana, with special reference to the Basarwa
Delivering Justice
Re-envisioning the local
De Soto and land relations in rural Africa
Taxation in the Tribal Areas of the Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1899–1957
The production of space
Just in Time
A Little God
Cattle, class and the state in rural Botswana
The Roots of Rural Poverty in Central and Southern Africa
In the Shadow of Marriage
Remembering the Present
Rethinking time's arrow
To Marry or Not to Marry
The Cultural Anthropology of Time
Introduction
To marry-or not to marry
| Obras citantes distintas | 5 |
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| Citas por año | 0,63 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Velocidad de citación | current |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 5 |