Gender, Property and Politics in the Pacific

Who Speaks for Land?
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-108-84480-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 562 g

Legal scholars, economists, and international development practitioners often assume that the state is capable of 'securing' rights to land and addressing gender inequality in land tenure. In this innovative study of land tenure in Solomon Islands, Rebecca Monson challenges these assumptions. Monson demonstrates that territorial disputes have given rise to a legal system characterised by state law, custom, and Christianity, and that the legal construction and regulation of property has, in fact, deepened gender inequalities and other forms of social difference. These processes have concentrated formal land control in the hands of a small number of men leaders, and reproduced the state as a hypermasculine domain, with significant implications for public authority, political participation, and state formation. Drawing insights from legal scholarship and political ecology in particular, this book offers a significant study of gender and legal pluralism in the Pacific, illuminating ongoing global debates about gender inequality, land tenure, ethnoterritorial struggles and the post colonial state.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Monson, Rebecca

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Bürgerliches Recht Sachenrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Grounding debates about land: gender inequality, property and the state; 2. Navigating custom, church and state: property, territory and authority in the protectorate era; 3. Chiefs, Priests and Vuluvulu: selective recognition and the simplification of authority in Marovo Lagoon; 4. From Taovia to Trustee: land disputes, insecurity and authority in Kakabona; 5. 'Land is our mother': ethno-territorial conflict and state formation; 6. Women speak for land: disrupting and re-forming property and authority.

Über Autor(innen)

Monson, Rebecca
Rebecca Monson is Associate Professor at the Australian National University College of Law. She has combined research and practice in the fields of gender inequality, justice systems and resource governance for over fifteen years, with a particular focus on Australia and the Pacific Islands region. She has held several Australian Research Council grants to examine legal systems in the Pacific, and regularly provides advice to aid donors, government agencies, and international organisations.