Research Catalog

Title

Land in South Africa : contested meanings and nation formation / edited by Khwezi Mabasa and Bulelwa Mabasa.

Publication

Johannesburg : Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA), 2021.

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Additional Authors

• Mabasa, Khwezi
• Mabasa, Bulelwa
• Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection, issuing body.

Description

xvii, 424 pages : illustrations, color map; 23 cm

Summary

"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."

Subject

• Land tenure > South Africa
• Land reform > South Africa

Note

• "A MISTRA publication."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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

Call Number

ReCAP 21-6402

ISBN

• 9781928509158
• 1928509150

OCLC

1244816404

Title

Land in South Africa : contested meanings and nation formation / edited by Khwezi Mabasa and Bulelwa Mabasa.

Publisher

Johannesburg : Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA), 2021.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Mabasa, Khwezi, editor.

Mabasa, Bulelwa, editor.

Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection, issuing body.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 21-6402