Janine M Ubink

Biographic Data

ID343416
NAMEJanine M Ubink
GIVEN NAMESJanine M
FAMILY NAMEUbink
SIGNATUREUBINK J M
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS98
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
H-INDEX3

  • How to combine tradition and modernity? Regulating customary land management in Ghana

    Open AccessJanine M Ubink, Janine Ubink et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2008Cited by: 50References: 15

  • In The Land of the Chiefs: Customary Law, Land Conflicts, and the Role of the State in Peri-Urban Ghana

    Janine M Ubink, Janine UbinkBOOKIn the land of the chiefs2008Cited by: 34References: 53

    International policy is currently witnessing a renewed interest in customary tenure systems as well as traditional leadership, through which it aims to enhance the efficiency of local governance and create general access to and secure rights in land. Contrary to these ideas, practice reveals a lack of security of customary tenure in areas with a high competition for land. Mounting evidence displays that customary systems often evolve inequitably …

  • Negotiated or Negated: The Rhetoric and Reality of Customary Tenure in an Ashanti Village in Ghana

    Janine M Ubink, Janine Ubink et al.ARTICLEAfrica2008

    Customary land tenure is seen as a field in which social and political relationships are diverse, overlapping and competing. Property regimes are, therefore, often analysed in terms of processes of negotiation, with people's social and political identities as central elements. This article studies the negotiability of customary tenure in peri-urban Ghana where land is at the centre of intense and unequal competition and closely tied up with strug…

  • Negotiated or Negated? The Rhetoric and Reality of Customary Tenure in an Ashanti Village in Ghana

    Open AccessJanine M Ubink, Janine UbinkARTICLEAfrica2008Cited by: 14References: 14

    Customary land tenure is seen as a field in which social and political relationships are diverse, overlapping and competing. Property regimes are, therefore, often analysed in terms of processes of negotiation, with people's social and political identities as central elements. This article studies the negotiability of customary tenure in peri-urban Ghana where land is at the centre of intense and unequal competition and closely tied up with strug…

  • Tenure Security: Wishful Policy Thinking or Reality? A Case from Peri-Urban Ghana

    Open AccessJanine M Ubink, Janine UbinkARTICLEJournal of African Law2007

    Many areas in Africa facing land shortage and competition witness increasingly restricted and insecure access to land for the poor majority. Mounting evidence of reduced tenure security shows that customary systems are often unable to evolve equitably. In contrast with this crisis in customary land administration, current international land policy is witnessing renewed interest in customary tenure systems. Ghana's current land policy resonates wi…