Title: Land tenure, gender and globalisation : research and analysis from Africa, Asia and Latin America /
Authors: Tsikata, Dzodzi.; Golah, Pamela.; International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher: ZUBAAN ; International Development Research Center,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Land tenure Africa.; Land tenure Asia.; Land tenure Latin America; Rural women Africa Economic conditions.; Rural women Asia Economic conditions.; Rural women Latin America Economic conditions.; Globalization Africa; Globalization Asia.; Globalization Latin America; Women landowners Africa.; Women landowners Asia.; Women landowners Latin America.
Abstract: "Drawing from field research in Cameroon, Ghana, Viet Nam, and the Amazon forests of Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru, this book explores the relationship between gender and land, revealing the workings of global capital and of people's responses to it. A central theme is the people's resistance to global forces, frequently through an insistence on the uniqueness of their livelihoods." "For instance, in the Amazon, the focus is on the social movements that have emerged in the context of struggles over land rights concerning the extraction of Brazil nuts and babatu kernels in an increasingly globalised market. In Viet Nam, the process of 'de-collectivising' rights to land is examined with a view to understanding ho* gender and other social differences are reworked in a market economy." "The book addresses a gap in the literature on land tenure and gender in developing countries. It raises new questions about the process of globalisation, particularly about who the actors are (local people, the state, NGOs, multinational companies) and the shifting relations amongst them. The book also challenges the very concepts of gender, land and globalisation."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Foreword / Ann Whitehead -- Introduction / Dzodzi Tsikata -- Gender, land tenure and globalisation : exploring the conceptual ground / Fiona D. Mackenzie -- Gender, globalisation and land tenure : methodological challenges and insights / Allison Goebel -- Economic liberalisation, changing resource tenures and gendered livelihoods : a study of small-scale gold mining and mangrove exploitation in rural Ghana / Mariama Awumbila and Dzodzi Tsikata -- The politics of gender, land and compensation in communities traversed by the Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline project in Cameroon / Joyce B.M. Endeley -- Facing globalisation : gender and land at stake in the Amazonian forests of Bolivia, Brazil and Peru / Noemi Miyasaka Porro ... [et al.] -- Gender, kinship and agrarian transitions in Vietnam / Steffanie Scott ... [et al.] -- Conclusion : for a politics of difference / Noemi Miyasaka Porro.