AfricaBib 
bibliographic database
| Previous page | New search |
The free AfricaBib App for Android is available here
 Book |
 Leiden University catalogue |
 WorldCat |
| Title: | Contesting land and custom in Ghana: state, chief and the citizen |
| Editors: | Ubink, Janine M. Amanor, Kojo S. |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Pages: | 230 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Law, governance, and development (ISSN 2452-3410) |
| City of publisher: | Amsterdam |
| Publisher: | Leiden University Press |
| ISBN: | 9789048506095; 9789087280475 |
| Geographic term: | Ghana |
| Subjects: | land tenure customary law land conflicts legal pluralism land reform |
| External link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1887/34459 |
| Abstract: | The contributions in this collective volume examine notions of customary land tenure in Ghana. They look at the relations between the customary and statutory tenure and the institutional interactions between the State and traditional authorities in land administration. Following the Introduction by Kojo Amanor and Janine Ubink, the first four papers, by Sara Berry, Kojo Amanor, Stefano Boni and Steve Tonah are concerned with the nature of customary institutions, historical changes in the customary, and the ways in which notions of the customary are manipulated by local elites and the State and are subject to political reinterpretation, redefinition and invention. Berry compares the situation in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. The next two papers, by Richard C. Crook and Janine Ubink, are concerned with local perceptions of customary and State institutions involved in land management, the ways in which the plurality of institutions are negotiated and utilized, issues of accountability and transparency in customary settings. The final chapter, by Julian Quan, Janine Ubink and Adarkwah Antwi, examines problems of implementing contemporary land policy reform in the Land Admninistration Project (LAP). [ASC Leiden abstract] |