Becoming Landowners EntangLements of Custom and Modernity in Papua New Guniea and Timor-Leste
Title : Becoming Landowners EntangLements of Custom and Modernity in Papua New Guniea and Timor-Leste Paperback: 232 pages Publisher : University of Hawai'i Press (30 novembre 2016) Collection : Topics in Contemporary Pacific Langue : Anglais ISBN-10: 082485666X ISBN-13: 978-0824856663 Description : Across Melanesia, the ways in which people connect to land are being transformed by processes of modernization globalization, the building of states and nations, practices and imaginaries of development, the legacies of colonialism, and the complexities of postcolonial encounters. Melanesian peoples are becoming landowners, Stead argues, both in the sense that these processes of change compel forms of property relations, and in the sense that landowner and custom landowner become identities to be wielded against the encroachment of both state and capital. In places where customary forms of land tenure have long been dominant, deeply intertwined with senses of s...