Women's Land Rights & Privatization in Eastern Africa

Birgit Englert, Elizabeth Daley

Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2008 - 179 pages

In the context of increasing privatization and land reform these case studies reveal how reforms impact on women's rights to land and how these rights are contested or upheld.

This volume focuses on the impact on women's land rights from the contemporary drive towards the formulation and implementation of land tenure reforms which aim primarily at the private registration of land. It is solidly groundedin the findings from seven case studies, all based on in-depth qualitative research, from various regions of Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda. The detailed, local level research in this volume not only challenges the status quo, but demonstrates that another world is possible and documents the many ways women in Eastern Africa are finding to ensure their rights to land.
BIRGIT ENGLERT is Assistant Professor in the Department of African Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria; ELIZABETH DALEY is an independent land consultant.
Uganda: Fountain Publishers(PB); Kenya: EAEP(PB); Tanzania: E&D Vision Publishing(PB)

Table des matières

• Introduction: 1
• Breathing Life into Dead Theories: 18
• Go Home Clear the Conflict: 40
• Gender Uenyeji Wealth Confidence Land in Kinyanambo: 61
• Changing Land Rights Gendered Discourses: 83
• 5: 98
• Struggling with InLaws Corruption: 121
• Women Land Arrangements in Rwanda: 138
• Afterword: 158
• Index: 176

À propos de l'auteur

Robin Palmer grew up in Massachusetts and New Jersey. She graduated from Boston University, and moved to Hollywood. She began as an assistant in the television literary department of the William Morris Agency. In 2001 she began writing and she currently resides in New York City.

AN ANSOMS is Professor in Development Studies at the UniversitéCatholique de Louvain (Belgium).

Informations bibliographiques

• Titre: Women's Land Rights & Privatization in Eastern Africa; Volume 1 de Eastern African studies
• Rédacteurs: Birgit Englert, Elizabeth Daley
• Collaborateurs: Robin Palmer, Celestine Nyamu Musembi, Ingunn Ikdahl, Judy Adoko, Simon Levine, Samwel Ong'wen Okuro, An Ansoms, Nathalie Holvoet
• Édition: illustrée
• Éditeur: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2008
• ISBN: 1847016111, 9781847016119
• Longueur: 179 pages