Gaining Ground?: Rights and Property in South African Land Reform

by Deborah James

Book Overview

Gaining Ground? Rights and Property in South African Land Reform examines how land reform policy and practice in post-apartheid South Africa have been produced and contested.

Set in the province of Mpumalanga, the book gives an ethnographic account of local initiatives and conflicts, showing how the poorest sectors of the landless have defied the South African state's attempts to privatize land holdings and create a new class of African...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415420318
• ISBN13: 9780415420310
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Routledge Cavendish
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"