Traditional authorities, legal power and land disputes in north-west Namibia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2186979 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kana Miyamoto (0000-0002-7350-1979, National Museum of Ethnology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 16-29 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology Southern Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2332-3264 • E-ISSN: 2332-3256 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/23323256.2021.2013122 |
| OpenAlex | W4229008588 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 25 |
This study considers the revitalisation of traditional authorities, a phenomenon found throughout modern Africa. It analyses and compares court cases involving land disputes amongst herders living in north-western Namibia. Since the 1990s, African nations have pursued land reform to stabilise and clarify the rights of land users in customary lands. Prior research indicates that traditional authorities, created during colonialism, have been able to maintain their influence since they were granted land-related authority under national legal systems. The cases presented in this article illustrate how the "rights and powers" of traditional authorities over land have not only been legally recognised by a national government, here that of Namibia, but have undergone development through the novel concepts of community-based natural resource management
Archaeology · Environmental protection · Geography · Land law · Land tenure · Political science · Power (physics · African history and culture analysis · Land Rights and Reforms · Law · Legal Issues in South Africa
Pastoralism in Africa
Shaping the African Savannah
Property and Political Order in Africa
Chiefs in South Africa
Democracy Compromised
Chieftaincies and Chiefs in Northern Namibia
Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment
Integrating Conservation and Development
African Enclosures
States and Chiefs
Namibia under South African Rule
The Ideology of 'Tribalism
The colonial encapsulation of the north-western Namibian pastoral economy
In search of chiefly authority in 'post-aid' Acholiland
Land use plans in Tanzania
Subject Disobedience
Entrepreneurs, Elites, and Exclusion in Maasailand
Fragmentation, Cooperation and Power
Unexpected Consequences
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |