Martin Chanock
Biographic Data
| ID | 208650 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Chanock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Chanock |
| SIGNATURE | CHANOCK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 405 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Role of Customary Law in Sustainable Development
The Role of Customary Law in Sustainable Development
For many nations, a key challenge is how to achieve sustainable development without a return to centralized planning. Using case studies from Greenland, Hawaii and northern Norway, this 2006 book examines whether 'bottom-up' systems such as customary law can play a critical role in achieving viable systems for managing natural resources. Customary law consists of underlying social norms that may become the acknowledged law of the land. The key to…
The Making of South African Legal Culture 1902–1936: Fear, Favour and Prejudice
The development of the South African legal system in the early twentieth century was crucial to the establishment and maintenance of the systems which underpinned the racist state, including control of the population, the running of the economy, and the legitimization of the regime. Martin Chanock's highly illuminating and definitive perspective on that development examines all areas of the law: criminal law and criminology; the Roman-Dutch law; …
Law as Process: An Anthropological Approach
The Making of South African Legal Culture, 1902-1936: Fear, Favour, and Prejudice
Puzzles, Paradigms and Problems: 1. Four stories 2. Legal culture, state making and colonialism Part II. Law and Order: 3. Police and policing 4. Criminology 5. Prisons and penology 6. Criminal law 7. Criminalising political opposition Part III. South African Common Law A: 8. Roman-Dutch law 9. Marriage and race 10. The legal profession Part IV. South African Common Law B: 11. Creating the discourse: customary law and colonial rule in South Afric…
Criminological Science and the Criminal Law on the Colonial Periphery: Perception, Fantasy, and Realities in South Africa, 1900-1930
This article, by framing criminology and criminal law together, suggests that in the early years of the South African state both bodies of discourse served to evade reality and to construct a sense of self and other as a part of the development of the administration of South African criminal law. It considers the derivation of South African criminology from contemporary metropolitan formulations. South African legal doctrine and practice likewise…
Criminological Science and the Criminal Law on the Colonial Periphery: Perception, Fantasy, and Realities in South Africa, 1900-1930
This article, by framing criminology and criminal law together, suggests that in the early years of the South African state both bodies of discourse served to evade reality and to construct a sense of self and other as a part of the development of the administration of South African criminal law. It considers the derivation of South African criminology from contemporary metropolitan formulations. South African legal doctrine and practice likewise…
A Peculiar Sharpness: An Essay on Property in the History of Customary Law in Colonial Africa
This essay outlines a general framework for thinking about African ideas about proprietary rights and considers how this might produce insights into ideas about social relations. Drawing largely on examples from East and Central Africa, and on an analysis of property disputes pursued to the Natal Native High Court, it is suggested that the development of a customary law came first to the ‘law of persons’ and then to the ‘law of property’. Ideas a…
Neither Customary Nor Legal: African Customary Law in an Era of Family Law Reform
Family law in Africa appears to involve a clash between the customary law and the modernizing ambitions of post-colonial states. An adequate conceptualizing of the customary law is, therefore, a necessary part of the comprehension of the politics of family law reform in modern Africa. The relatively recent overthrow of the colonial states has made it an important part of the symbolical politics of modern Africa to reassert African values and inst…
Writing South African Legal History: A Prospectus
This article outlines the approach to the writing of South African legal history being taken in a book in progress on the South African legal system between 1902 and 1929. It suggests that legalism has been an important part of the political culture of South Africa and that, therefore, an understanding of legal history is necessary to a comprehension of the South African state. It offers a critique of the liberal notion of the rule of law as a de…
Law, Custom and Social Order, the Colonial Experience in Malawi and Zambia
Journal Article Law, Custom and Social Order, the Colonial Experience in Malawi and Zambia Get access Chanock Martin, Law, Custom and Social Order, the Colonial Experience in Malawi and Zambia. African Studies Series 45. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. xi, 286 pp. $42.50. T.O. Beidelman T.O. Beidelman New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume…
Law, custom, and social order: The colonial experience in Malawi and Zambia
"This book explores the historical formation during the colonial period of that part of African law known as customary law. In treating the emergence of the customary law as part of the history of the social and economic transformation of African societies under colonial rule, it also provides an interpretation of the ways in which people tried to control the disrupting effects of the changes which they experienced. Martin Chanock shows how Afric…
Britain, Rhodesia, and South Africa 1900-1945: The Unconsummated Union
Britain, Rhodesia and South Africa 1900-45: The Unconsummated Union
Nec-Traditionalism and the Customary Law in Malawi
Britain, Rhodesia and South Africa, 1900-45: The Unconsummated Union
Britain, Rhodesia and South Africa 1900-45: The Unconsummated Union
The Soviet Union and Black Africa
Journal Article The Soviet Union and Black Africa Get access The Soviet Union and Black Africa. By Christopher Stevens. London: Macmillan. 1976. 236 pp. £10⋅00. Martin Chanock Martin Chanock Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 53, Issue 2, April 1977, Pages 320–321, https://doi.org/10.2307/2617046 Published: 01 April 1977
China's African Revolution and China's Policy in Africa 1958–71
Journal Article China's African Revolution and China's Policy in Africa 1958–71 Get access China's African Revolution. By Alan Hutchison. London: Hutchinson. 1975. 313 pp. £5.00.China's Policy in Africa 1958–71. By Alaba Ogunsanwo. London: Cambridge University Press for the Centre for International Studies, London School of Economics. 1974. 310 pp. £6.50. $19.50. Martin Chanock Martin Chanock 1University of Sussex Search for other works by this a…
Malawl: Foreign Policy and Development
Journal Article Malawl: foreign policy and development Get access Malawl: foreign policy and development, by Carolyn McMaster. Julian Friedmann, 1974. Bibliography, index. £4.25. MARTIN CHANOCK MARTIN CHANOCK University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 74, Issue 295, April 1975, Pages 237–238, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096602 Published: 01 April 1975
Ambiguities in the Malawian Political Tradition
Journal Article AMBIGUITIES IN THE MALAWIAN POLITICAL TRADITION Get access M. L. CHANOCK M. L. CHANOCK Dr Martin Chanock is presently a research fellow at Sussex University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 74, Issue 296, July 1975, Pages 326–346, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096619 Published: 01 July 1975
Law, custom, and social order: The colonial experience in Malawi and Zambia
"This book explores the historical formation during the colonial period of that part of African law known as customary law. In treating the emergence of the customary law as part of the history of the social and economic transformation of African societies under colonial rule, it also provides an interpretation of the ways in which people tried to control the disrupting effects of the changes which they experienced. Martin Chanock shows how Afric…
Law as Process: An Anthropological Approach
A Peculiar Sharpness: An Essay on Property in the History of Customary Law in Colonial Africa
This essay outlines a general framework for thinking about African ideas about proprietary rights and considers how this might produce insights into ideas about social relations. Drawing largely on examples from East and Central Africa, and on an analysis of property disputes pursued to the Natal Native High Court, it is suggested that the development of a customary law came first to the ‘law of persons’ and then to the ‘law of property’. Ideas a…
Neither Customary Nor Legal: African Customary Law in an Era of Family Law Reform
Family law in Africa appears to involve a clash between the customary law and the modernizing ambitions of post-colonial states. An adequate conceptualizing of the customary law is, therefore, a necessary part of the comprehension of the politics of family law reform in modern Africa. The relatively recent overthrow of the colonial states has made it an important part of the symbolical politics of modern Africa to reassert African values and inst…
Writing South African Legal History: A Prospectus
This article outlines the approach to the writing of South African legal history being taken in a book in progress on the South African legal system between 1902 and 1929. It suggests that legalism has been an important part of the political culture of South Africa and that, therefore, an understanding of legal history is necessary to a comprehension of the South African state. It offers a critique of the liberal notion of the rule of law as a de…
Ambiguities in the Malawian Political Tradition
Journal Article AMBIGUITIES IN THE MALAWIAN POLITICAL TRADITION Get access M. L. CHANOCK M. L. CHANOCK Dr Martin Chanock is presently a research fellow at Sussex University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 74, Issue 296, July 1975, Pages 326–346, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096619 Published: 01 July 1975
The Making of South African Legal Culture, 1902-1936: Fear, Favour, and Prejudice
Puzzles, Paradigms and Problems: 1. Four stories 2. Legal culture, state making and colonialism Part II. Law and Order: 3. Police and policing 4. Criminology 5. Prisons and penology 6. Criminal law 7. Criminalising political opposition Part III. South African Common Law A: 8. Roman-Dutch law 9. Marriage and race 10. The legal profession Part IV. South African Common Law B: 11. Creating the discourse: customary law and colonial rule in South Afric…
China's African Revolution and China's Policy in Africa 1958–71
Journal Article China's African Revolution and China's Policy in Africa 1958–71 Get access China's African Revolution. By Alan Hutchison. London: Hutchinson. 1975. 313 pp. £5.00.China's Policy in Africa 1958–71. By Alaba Ogunsanwo. London: Cambridge University Press for the Centre for International Studies, London School of Economics. 1974. 310 pp. £6.50. $19.50. Martin Chanock Martin Chanock 1University of Sussex Search for other works by this a…
Malawl: Foreign Policy and Development
Journal Article Malawl: foreign policy and development Get access Malawl: foreign policy and development, by Carolyn McMaster. Julian Friedmann, 1974. Bibliography, index. £4.25. MARTIN CHANOCK MARTIN CHANOCK University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 74, Issue 295, April 1975, Pages 237–238, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096602 Published: 01 April 1975
Ambiguities in the Malawian Political Tradition
Journal Article AMBIGUITIES IN THE MALAWIAN POLITICAL TRADITION Get access M. L. CHANOCK M. L. CHANOCK Dr Martin Chanock is presently a research fellow at Sussex University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 74, Issue 296, July 1975, Pages 326–346, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096619 Published: 01 July 1975
The Soviet Union and Black Africa
Journal Article The Soviet Union and Black Africa Get access The Soviet Union and Black Africa. By Christopher Stevens. London: Macmillan. 1976. 236 pp. £10⋅00. Martin Chanock Martin Chanock Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 53, Issue 2, April 1977, Pages 320–321, https://doi.org/10.2307/2617046 Published: 01 April 1977
Nec-Traditionalism and the Customary Law in Malawi
Britain, Rhodesia and South Africa, 1900-45: The Unconsummated Union
Britain, Rhodesia and South Africa 1900-45: The Unconsummated Union
Britain, Rhodesia and South Africa 1900-45: The Unconsummated Union
Britain, Rhodesia, and South Africa 1900-1945: The Unconsummated Union
Law, custom, and social order: The colonial experience in Malawi and Zambia
"This book explores the historical formation during the colonial period of that part of African law known as customary law. In treating the emergence of the customary law as part of the history of the social and economic transformation of African societies under colonial rule, it also provides an interpretation of the ways in which people tried to control the disrupting effects of the changes which they experienced. Martin Chanock shows how Afric…
Law, Custom and Social Order, the Colonial Experience in Malawi and Zambia
Journal Article Law, Custom and Social Order, the Colonial Experience in Malawi and Zambia Get access Chanock Martin, Law, Custom and Social Order, the Colonial Experience in Malawi and Zambia. African Studies Series 45. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. xi, 286 pp. $42.50. T.O. Beidelman T.O. Beidelman New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume…
Neither Customary Nor Legal: African Customary Law in an Era of Family Law Reform
Family law in Africa appears to involve a clash between the customary law and the modernizing ambitions of post-colonial states. An adequate conceptualizing of the customary law is, therefore, a necessary part of the comprehension of the politics of family law reform in modern Africa. The relatively recent overthrow of the colonial states has made it an important part of the symbolical politics of modern Africa to reassert African values and inst…
Writing South African Legal History: A Prospectus
This article outlines the approach to the writing of South African legal history being taken in a book in progress on the South African legal system between 1902 and 1929. It suggests that legalism has been an important part of the political culture of South Africa and that, therefore, an understanding of legal history is necessary to a comprehension of the South African state. It offers a critique of the liberal notion of the rule of law as a de…
A Peculiar Sharpness: An Essay on Property in the History of Customary Law in Colonial Africa
This essay outlines a general framework for thinking about African ideas about proprietary rights and considers how this might produce insights into ideas about social relations. Drawing largely on examples from East and Central Africa, and on an analysis of property disputes pursued to the Natal Native High Court, it is suggested that the development of a customary law came first to the ‘law of persons’ and then to the ‘law of property’. Ideas a…
Criminological Science and the Criminal Law on the Colonial Periphery: Perception, Fantasy, and Realities in South Africa, 1900-1930
This article, by framing criminology and criminal law together, suggests that in the early years of the South African state both bodies of discourse served to evade reality and to construct a sense of self and other as a part of the development of the administration of South African criminal law. It considers the derivation of South African criminology from contemporary metropolitan formulations. South African legal doctrine and practice likewise…
Criminological Science and the Criminal Law on the Colonial Periphery: Perception, Fantasy, and Realities in South Africa, 1900-1930
This article, by framing criminology and criminal law together, suggests that in the early years of the South African state both bodies of discourse served to evade reality and to construct a sense of self and other as a part of the development of the administration of South African criminal law. It considers the derivation of South African criminology from contemporary metropolitan formulations. South African legal doctrine and practice likewise…
The Making of South African Legal Culture 1902–1936: Fear, Favour and Prejudice
The development of the South African legal system in the early twentieth century was crucial to the establishment and maintenance of the systems which underpinned the racist state, including control of the population, the running of the economy, and the legitimization of the regime. Martin Chanock's highly illuminating and definitive perspective on that development examines all areas of the law: criminal law and criminology; the Roman-Dutch law; …
Law as Process: An Anthropological Approach
The Making of South African Legal Culture, 1902-1936: Fear, Favour, and Prejudice
Puzzles, Paradigms and Problems: 1. Four stories 2. Legal culture, state making and colonialism Part II. Law and Order: 3. Police and policing 4. Criminology 5. Prisons and penology 6. Criminal law 7. Criminalising political opposition Part III. South African Common Law A: 8. Roman-Dutch law 9. Marriage and race 10. The legal profession Part IV. South African Common Law B: 11. Creating the discourse: customary law and colonial rule in South Afric…
The Role of Customary Law in Sustainable Development
For many nations, a key challenge is how to achieve sustainable development without a return to centralized planning. Using case studies from Greenland, Hawaii and northern Norway, this 2006 book examines whether 'bottom-up' systems such as customary law can play a critical role in achieving viable systems for managing natural resources. Customary law consists of underlying social norms that may become the acknowledged law of the land. The key to…
Role of Customary Law in Sustainable Development
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