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Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa (review)

Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa (review) Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa (review) Ruth Meinzen-Dick Land Economics, Volume 86, Number 4, November 2010, pp. 840-842 (Review) Published by University of Wisconsin Press For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/467523/summary Access provided at 20 Feb 2020 03:05 GMT from JHU Libraries BOOK REVIEW Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa by Christian Lund Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008, $85.99, 224 pp. Many government policy makers, donor bring out conflicts, including cases of agencies, and analysts are seeking straight- urbanization, forestry, and irrigation, as forward ways to clarify and strengthen well as analysis of a violent ethnopolitical property rights over land, particularly in conflict. Africa. They won’t find the answers in this Rather than the sense of inevitability that volume. Instead, they will find a nuanced many histories convey, Lund stresses the presentation of the underlying complexity tensions, struggles, and responses of differ- and dynamics of property rights, and why ent actors, including what they appeal to in simplistic policies or mechanistic treatments their efforts to translate their claims into of property rights are unlikely to produce rights. These illustrate the broader principle their anticipated results. that ‘‘laws, regulations, and policies http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Land Economics University of Wisconsin Press

Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa (review)

Land Economics , Volume 86 (4) – Apr 4, 2012

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Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa (review) Ruth Meinzen-Dick Land Economics, Volume 86, Number 4, November 2010, pp. 840-842 (Review) Published by University of Wisconsin Press For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/467523/summary Access provided at 20 Feb 2020 03:05 GMT from JHU Libraries BOOK REVIEW Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa by Christian Lund Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008, $85.99, 224 pp. Many government policy makers, donor bring out conflicts, including cases of agencies, and analysts are seeking straight- urbanization, forestry, and irrigation, as forward ways to clarify and strengthen well as analysis of a violent ethnopolitical property rights over land, particularly in conflict. Africa. They won’t find the answers in this Rather than the sense of inevitability that volume. Instead, they will find a nuanced many histories convey, Lund stresses the presentation of the underlying complexity tensions, struggles, and responses of differ- and dynamics of property rights, and why ent actors, including what they appeal to in simplistic policies or mechanistic treatments their efforts to translate their claims into of property rights are unlikely to produce rights. These illustrate the broader principle their anticipated results. that ‘‘laws, regulations, and policies

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