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020 _a9781431408160
040 _cASTL
_beng
245 0 4 _aThe promise of land :
_bundoing a century of dispossession in South Africa /
_cedited by Fred Hendricks, Lungisile Ntsebeza and Kirk Helliker.
260 _aAuckland Park, South Africa :
_bJacana Media,
_c2013.
300 _ax, 366 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _a"The ongoing racialised inequalities in land, inherited from colonial dispossession, act as a spatial barrier to imagining a unitary nation in contemporary South Africa. The starting point for this book is that the current land reform policies in the country fail to take this colonial context of division and exclusion into account. Consequently, there is an abiding crisis in land in South Africa. The book examines the very many dimensions of this crisis in urban areas, commercial farming areas and communal areas. It argues for a fundamental change in approach to move beyond the impasse in both policy and thinking about land. The Promise of Land argues that social movements have a critcal role to play in charting a new course, both in respect of access to land and in influencing broader policy options. Struggles from below are crucial for rethinking purely statist efforts at land reform and the book grapples with the interplay between oppositional campaigns of social movements and the state's policies and responses." -- Back cover.
650 0 _aLand tenure
_zSouth Africa.
_9847579
650 0 _aLand reform
_xGovernment policy
_zSouth Africa.
_9847580
650 0 _aSocial movements
_zSouth Africa.
_9847581
650 0 _aLand settlement
_zSouth Africa.
_9847582
650 0 _aRestitution
_zSouth Africa.
_9847583
650 0 _aAgriculture
_zSouth Africa.
_9847584
650 0 _aLand use, Rural
_zSouth Africa.
_9847585
650 0 _aRural development
_zSouth Africa.
_9847586
700 1 _aHendricks, Fred T.
_9847587
700 1 _aNtsebeza, Lungisile.
_9847588
700 1 _aHelliker, Kirk.
_9847589
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