Territorialities, spatial inequalities and the formalization of land rights in Central Benin
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2103441 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philippe Lavigne Delville (0000-0002-8571-4322, Gouvernance, Risque, Environnement, Développement), Anne-Claire Moalic (Gouvernance, Risque, Environnement, Développement) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 329-352 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-01 |
| 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/s0001972019000111 |
| OpenAlex | W2946517510 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 37 |
The formalization of 'informal' customary land rights is at the core of current rural land policies in Africa. The dubious impacts of such policies on agricultural production, and the recomposition of land rights and governance they cause, have been studied widely. But their territorial dimensions are hardly acknowledged. Studying the implementation of a rural land rights formalization project in central Benin, this article highlights the links between territorialization and plot-level land rights formalization. It first unpacks the notion of the village and presents a conceptual framework for analysing the superimposition of and contradiction between customary and administrative territories. Using two case studies, it then examines the conflicts that arise during formalization operations and their outcomes in terms of the mapping of land rights and political and administrative change. This article shows how the political organization of the territory and the socio-spatial inequalities resulting from the history of settlement shape the results of plot-level land rights registration (which explains why large parts of village territories have not been registered), and, in turn, how these registration operations lead to new territorialization processes and increase the heterogeneity of land tenure rights within the territory
Agriculture · Business · Environmental planning · Geography · Inequality · Land law · Land rights · Land tenure · Land use · Political science · Politics · Property rights · Settlement (finance · African history and culture studies · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Land Rights and Reforms · Law
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L’État, les droits fonciers et le cadastre
Municipal Territoriality
Post-conflict restitution of customary land
Shadow State and the making of informal territories
Push, pull and push-back to land certification
African Agrarian Systems
Women, Wives and Land Rights in Africa
Human territoriality
States at Work
The Politics of Possession
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Impact of privatization on gender and property rights in Africa
Formalising property relations in the developing world
De Soto and land relations in rural Africa
Human Territoriality
L'organisation de la mobilité dans les sociétés rurales du Sud
Arrows and Earth Shrines
Territorialisation et pouvoir
Where to draw the line
State Making and the Politics of the Frontier in Central Benin
The Evolutionary Theory of Land Rights as Applied to Sub-Saharan Africa
The Dynamics of Resource Tenure in West Africa
Terre, Terroire, Territoire
La reforme fonciere rurale au Benin
Development Aid as an Intervention in Dynamic Systems
Une petite entreprise de réassemblage du monde
Twilight Institutions
Property, Authority and Citizenship
Grandeurs villageoises
Histoire des populations mahi
Territory and property in primitive society
Seeing Like a State
Constructing Locality
The Dynamics of Resource Tenure in West Africa
Your terroir and my 'action space
Social institutions and access to resources
New frontiers of land control
The Past and Space
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |