Grass Roots Land Tenure among Yeyi of North-Western Botswana
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16766908 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alistair J Sutherland (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 62-84 |
| Publication date | 1980-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of African Law (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0221-8553 • E-ISSN: 1464-3731 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021855300008858 |
| OpenAlex | W2149043706 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
A central problem for a national programme of land reform is the selective response of local communities. The plans are often grand, simple and homogeneous; the communities, small, complex and diverse. Moreover, locally a received reform may be re-interpreted—indeed, re-invented—in quite fundamental ways in the light of a locally understood history of introduced change and outside intervention. There may be a deliberately defensive response, due to the high value people put on their community's autonomy or due to the perceived bias of the reform in relation to longstanding oppositions within a community. Sometimes, also there may be an attempt to seize an opportunity, perhaps unintended by the reform's planners, for a further encroachment by some at the expense of others, within the community itself
Archaeology · Autonomy · Geography · Homogeneous · Intervention (counseling) · Land reform · Land tenure · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Unintended consequences · Value (mathematics) · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Land Rights and Reforms · Law · Psychology · Public Administration
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.03 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 1990 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |