| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 276 pages) : illustrations |
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Routledge Studies in Gender and Development |
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Routledge studies in gender and development.
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| Contents |
Introduction: the pressing need to secure women's property rights under unprecedented land pressure and land reform / Caroline S. Archambault and Annelies Zoomers -- PART I. From small farms to firms: a bad deal for women? Gender, land, and agricultural investments in Lao PDR / Clara Mi Young Park and Elizabeth Daley -- Women and benefit-sharing in large-scale land deals: a mining case study from Papua, New Guinea / Nicholas Menzies and Georgia Harley -- A women's world or the return of men?: the gendered impacts of residential tourism in Costa Rica / Femke Noorloos -- PART II. From de facto to de jure: formalizing patriarchy in the codification of customary tenure? Cameroons community forest program and women's income generation from non-timber forest products: negative impacts and potential solutions / Marguerite Belobo Belibi, Judith van Eijnatten, and Nicholas Barber -- Gendered mobilization: women and the politics of indigenous land claims in Argentina / Matthias vom Hau -- Joint land certificates in Madagascar: the gendered outcome of a gender neutral policy / Marit Widman -- Land titling and women's decision making in West Bengal / Vivian Savath, Diana Fletschner, and Florence Santos -- PART III. From common property to private holdings: a tragedy for the "commoners"? "One doesn't sell one's parents": gendered experiences of shifting tenure regimes in the agricultural plain of the Sais in Morocco / Lisa Bossenbroek and Margreet Zwarteveen -- Aging ejidos in the wake of neo-liberal reform: livelihood predicaments of Mexican ejidatarias / Verónica Vásquez-García -- Women's forestland rights in the collective forestland reforms in China: fieldwork findings and policy recommendations / Xiaobei Wang, Elisa Scalise, and Renee Giovarelli -- Gendered perspectives on rangeland privatization among the Maasai of Southern Kenya / Caroline S. Archambault -- PART IV. From conflict to peace: an opportunity for gender reconstruction? Reproducing patriarchy on resettled lands: a lost opportunity in reconstituting women's land rights in the Fast Track Land Reform Program of Zimbabwe / Manase Kudzai Chiweshe -- Resigning their rights?: impediments to women's property ownership in Kosovo / Sandra F. Joireman -- Strengthening women's land rights while recognizing customary tenure in Northern Uganda / Leslie Hannay and Elisa Scalise -- Index |
| Summary |
This book explores the gendered dimensions of recent land governance transformations across the globe in the wake of unprecedented pressures on land and natural resources. These complex contemporary forces are reconfiguring livelihoods and impacting women's positions, their tenure security and well-being, and that of their families. Bringing together fourteen empirical community case studies from around the world, the book examines governance transformations of land and land-based resources resulting from four major processes of tenure change: commercial land based investments, the formalization of customary tenure, the privatization of communal lands, and post-conflict resettlement and redistribution reforms. Each contribution carefully analyses the gendered dimensions of these transformations, exploring both the gender impact of the land tenure reforms and the social and political economy within which these reforms materialize. The cases provide important insights for decision makers to better promote and design an effective gender lens into land tenure reforms and natural resource management policies. This book will be of great interest to researchers engaging with land and natural resource management issues from a wide variety of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, development studies, and political science, as well as policy makers, practitioners, and activists concerned with environment, development, and social equity |
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"This volume explores the gendered dimensions of recent land governance transformations across the globe, shedding important light on how the intersection of these complex contemporary forces are reconfiguring livelihoods and impacting women's positions, their tenure security and their well-being. It brings together empirical community case studies from around the world that describe, historicize, and situate land (or land-based resource) governance transformation processes as a product of contemporary forces and country/regional specificities. Each contribution carefully analyzes the gendered dimensions of these transformations exploring how women are impacted by and respond to these processes of change"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource, vendor-supplied metadata, and print version record |
| Subject |
Land tenure -- Developing countries
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Land reform -- Developing countries
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Women in agriculture -- Developing countries
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
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Land reform
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Land tenure
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Women in agriculture
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Developing countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Archambault, Caroline S., editor.
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Zoomers, E. B., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781317658603 |
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1317658604 |
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1315765829 |
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9781315765822 |
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9781317658580 |
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1317658582 |
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9781317658597 |
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1317658590 |
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9780815394068 |
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0815394063 |
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