Land in South Africa
Subtitle: contested meanings and nation formation
By: edited by Khwezi Mabasa and Bulelwa Mabasa
Contributors: Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection
Publisher: Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA)
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Johannesburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9781928509158
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Land tenure; Land reform
Description: "Land in South Africa: contested meanings and nation formation, examines how land and agrarian reform impacts nation building, citizenship, and identity formation. The publication draws attention to the limitations of reducing land to a commodity, and how this approach perpetuates social conflict and inequality in land reform policy implementation. The book posits an alternative policy paradigm, which discusses contested meanings of land and their relation to nation formation. It brings to the fore citizen stakeholder perspectives from former labour tenants, citizens residing in communally owned land, women subsistence farmers, peasant movements and land reform civil society groups. The chapters investigate the diverse and contested meanings of land to elevate how South Africans perceive land justice and reform, while also including several international case studies. The publication argues that land power relations and policy debates are constitutive components of nation building. And, importantly, that land shapes essential pillars in nation formation such as citizenship, political identity, heritage, a sense of belonging and social disparities."
Notes: "A MISTRA publication."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: land, agrarian reform and nation formation / -- Khwezi Mabasa and Bulelwa Mabasa; title: Nationalisms and nation formation in South Africa  -- Yacoob Abba Omar; title: Decolonising laws and policies to represent the people  -- Bulelwa Mabasa; title: Securing the land: from customary land tenure to registered titled lands?  -- Peter Delius and William Beinart; title: Traditional leaders 'conceptions of land reform and rural citizens identities  -- Fani Ncapayi; title: Magic mountain: the spiritual meaning of the land to South Africa's rural dispossessed, past and present  -- David Coplan and Kearabetswe Moopelo; title: Abafazi bayazbambela: a gendered response to South Africa's agrarian question  -- Khwezi Mabasa; title: Land is more than farming: former labour tenants views on land expropriation without compensation  -- Sithandiwe Yeni; title: Dispossession and displacement: land rights and dignity in rural Mozambique and Angola  -- David Matsinhe; title: Land reform in South Africa: lessons from Zimbabwe's radical land expropriation process  -- Zenzo Moyo and Toendepi Shonhe; title: Land struggle, democracy and race in Brazil contesting the nation  -- Andrew Bennie; title: Land, citizenship and nation formation in the occupied Palestinian territories  -- Quraysha Sooliman; title: Nation formation, citizenship and rethinking land reform -- Khwezi Mabasa and Bulelwa Mabasa.