The Past and Space
On Arguments in African Land Control
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2102876 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christian Lund (0000-0003-1196-9709) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 83 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 14-35 |
| Publication date | 2013-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9720 • E-ISSN: 1750-0184 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0001972012000691 |
| OpenAlex | W2000749109 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 38 |
| References cited | 60 |
The contemporary construction of the past is crucial for the successful vindication of political rights in Africa. Often, however, more than a single past proves potentially valid as a claim to land and office. When arguments of the past, furthermore, intertwine with competing projections of legitimate forms of land control, complex combinations of claims emerge. The ubiquity of 'the past' in African politics and the increasing competition over space suggest that the naturalness with which some refer to the past and others conceive of space should be under constant scrutiny. Based on work in northern Ghana, the article argues that the contemporary construction of the past, as either tradition or history, and the competing projections of land control, as either property or political territory, interdigitate in complex ways. This affords certain rhetorical or discursive combinations that competing social elite groups instrumentalize. Each group sees its interests best served by a particular reading of the past and a particular conception of space
Archaeology · Control (management · Geography · Linguistics · Political science · Pure land · Space (punctuation) · African history and culture studies · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Land Rights and Reforms · Philosophy
Land dispossession and livelihood transformations in peri-urban Accra
Urban Land Management and its Discontents
Making the Best of a Rotten Deal
Interplay of land governance and large-scale agricultural investment
Désordre colonial dans la propriété
Violent farmer–herder conflicts in Ghana
Conservation Trapped in Ethno-regional Politics
Beyond Contesting Limits
What is a Chief without Land? Impact of Land Reforms on Power Structures in Namibia
Frontiers of Commodification
Indirect Recognition. Frontiers and Territorialization around Mount Halimun-Salak National Park, Indonesia
The politics of land registration in Ethiopia
The nexus between land acquisition and household livelihoods in the Northern region of Ghana
Exploring the “implementation gap” in land registration
Of waste facility siting and relational geographies of place
Powers of exclusion and counter-exclusion
Impacts of large-scale land holdings on Fulani pastoralists’ in the Agogo Traditional Area of Ghana
The Crumbling Fortress
Making space legible across three normative frames
Digitalizing land administration
On Violent Conflict, Land Scarcity, and Power in an urban Frontier in Congo
Keeping information on land up-to-date
Landscape transformation in Jambi province, Sumatra - An analysis of land tenure regulations under translational dynamics
Reconfiguring Frontier Spaces
Cause and response
Struggles over Access to Shea Trees in Burkina Faso and Ghana
Unsettled Rights
Unravelling Church Land
Rule and Rupture
Persistent Shadows of Legal Pluralism
Struggles over Resource Access in Rural Tanzania
Contesting the militarization of the places where they met
Predatory peace. Dispossession at Aceh's oil palm frontier
The Consolidation Of 'Traditional Villages' In Pikine, Senegal
Sylvan Memories of People, Place, and Trees in Nangodi, Northeastern Ghana
Territorialities, spatial inequalities and the formalization of land rights in Central Benin
The dead are just to drink from
A 'Despicable Shambles
Social facts and fabrications
Chiefs and politicians
Democracy and Decentralisation in South Asia and West Africa
Political Topographies of the African State
Mortgaging the Ancestors
Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa
The appropriation of nature
Negotiating property in Africa
Customs in common
Law as Process
Human territoriality
Certainties undone
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Law and Colonial Cultures
Maps, Metaphors, and Meanings
Maps, Metaphors, and Meanings
Recentralizing While Decentralizing
Talking claims
Explaining success on the commons
States and Social Contracts in Africa
Human Territoriality
Ethnicity and the Making of History in Northern Ghana
Colonial Ethnography and Political Reform
Of Hunters, Goats and Earth-Shrines
The Anthropology of Time
Rules and processes, the cultural logic of dispute in an African context
Legitimacy, Authority and the Transfer of Power in Ghana
The Dynamics of Clanship among the Tallensi—being the First Part of an Analysis of the Social Structure of a Trans-Volta Tribe
Living in the past
Treating Law as Knowledge
Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism
Dependence and Opportunity
The Lions of Dagbon
Decentralization, the State and Conflicts over Local Boundaries in Northern Ghana
Twilight Institutions
Property, Authority and Citizenship
Essays in Social History
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
African Political Systems
Expectations of Modernity
The Past as a Scarce Resource
Dependence and Opportunity
The Past and the Present in the Present
The chief, the mine captain and the politician
Unity for Development' youth associations in north-western Ghana
Prophecy and the near future
Fragmented sovereignty
New frontiers of land control
Territorialization and state power in Thailand
| Unique citing works | 38 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,17 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 36 |