Thomas Coggin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1640839 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Coggin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Coggin |
| SIGNATURE | COGGIN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6482-6552 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Judicial Marginalization of Communal Land Tenure in South Africa
The South African case, Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution and Others v Ingonyama Trust and Others ( CASAC) concerned a dispute between customary law communities and the Ingonyama Trust (the Trust). The Trust, which holds the land for the benefit and welfare of its communities sought to unilaterally convert customary land tenure to common law leaseholds. The communities successfully challenged this decision before the K…
Plurality in property
In this paper, I explore the possibilities in reading s (s) 25 (1) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 – the property clause – as protecting a plurality of claims to space in the South African constitutional context. This will be done by reading the clause as protecting often competing claims to space, including claims that go beyond the common law ownership of land. These include claims grounded in indigenous law and practi…
Property ’s Shadow
Property as a legal assemblage works to produce and imagine space according to a dominant set of norms and principles, thereby casting an imagined projection into multiple worlds. This unduly narrows the lens through which governance actors perceive and mediate competing claims to urban space. In this article we engage this feature of property in the context of contestation over urban land in Durban, an intensely plural city of the global South. …
A Right to Transport? Moving Towards a Rights-Based Approach to Mobility in the City
Given the spatial and economic inequalities inherent to South African towns and cities, which have been exacerbated by recent waves of urbanisation, this article aims to situate the provision of public transport in South Africa within a rights-based framework. Relying upon urban theory on the 'right to the city', we illustrate how public transport, while not the subject of an independent constitutional right, is central to accessing the objects o…
Rights and the City
A Right to Transport? Moving Towards a Rights-Based Approach to Mobility in the City
Given the spatial and economic inequalities inherent to South African towns and cities, which have been exacerbated by recent waves of urbanisation, this article aims to situate the provision of public transport in South Africa within a rights-based framework. Relying upon urban theory on the 'right to the city', we illustrate how public transport, while not the subject of an independent constitutional right, is central to accessing the objects o…
Rights and the City
A Right to Transport? Moving Towards a Rights-Based Approach to Mobility in the City
Given the spatial and economic inequalities inherent to South African towns and cities, which have been exacerbated by recent waves of urbanisation, this article aims to situate the provision of public transport in South Africa within a rights-based framework. Relying upon urban theory on the 'right to the city', we illustrate how public transport, while not the subject of an independent constitutional right, is central to accessing the objects o…
Property ’s Shadow
Property as a legal assemblage works to produce and imagine space according to a dominant set of norms and principles, thereby casting an imagined projection into multiple worlds. This unduly narrows the lens through which governance actors perceive and mediate competing claims to urban space. In this article we engage this feature of property in the context of contestation over urban land in Durban, an intensely plural city of the global South. …
Judicial Marginalization of Communal Land Tenure in South Africa
The South African case, Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution and Others v Ingonyama Trust and Others ( CASAC) concerned a dispute between customary law communities and the Ingonyama Trust (the Trust). The Trust, which holds the land for the benefit and welfare of its communities sought to unilaterally convert customary land tenure to common law leaseholds. The communities successfully challenged this decision before the K…
Plurality in property
In this paper, I explore the possibilities in reading s (s) 25 (1) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 – the property clause – as protecting a plurality of claims to space in the South African constitutional context. This will be done by reading the clause as protecting often competing claims to space, including claims that go beyond the common law ownership of land. These include claims grounded in indigenous law and practi…
Legal Issues in South Africa (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Land Rights and Reforms (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Corporate governance (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works)