Looking back to see forward: The legal niceties of land theft in land rushes

Journal of Peasant Studies

Volumn 39, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 751-775

  Alden Wily, Liz ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Africa; commons; customary land tenure; dispossession; land rushes of the past; law; property

Indexed keywords

CLASS; LAND RIGHTS; LAND TENURE; PROPERTY RIGHTS;

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

JUNCUS;

EID: 84861880011     PISSN: 03066150     EISSN: 17439361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2012.674033     Document Type: Article

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