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Title:Contesting land and custom in Ghana: state, chief and the citizen
Editors:Ubink, Janine M.ISNI
Amanor, Kojo S.ISNI
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]
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