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Property & politics in Sabah, Malaysia : native struggles over land rights
- Title
- Property & politics in Sabah, Malaysia : native struggles over land rights / Amity A. Doolittle.
- Author
- Doolittle, Amity Appell.
- Publication
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2005.
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- Description
- x, 224 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "In 1990, shortly after a Malaysian politician announced that the boundaries of Kinabalu Park, a primary tourist destination, were to be expanded to include the species-rich tropical forest known locally as Bukit Hampuen, most of the area was burned to the ground, allegedly by local people. What would motivate the people who had for generations hunted and gathered forest products there to act so destructively?"
- "In this volume, Amity Doolittle illuminates this and other contemporary land-use issues by examining customary rights of access and how resources were used historically in Sabah from 1881 to 1996. Drawing upon anthropology, political science, environmental history, and political ecology, she looks at how control over resources has been defined, negotiated, and contested by colonial state agents, the postcolonial Malaysian state, and local people." "Property and Politics in Sabah, Malaysia has great relevance to development studies, political ecology, environmental planning, anthropology, and legal studies in natural resource management."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Culture, place, and nature
- Uniform Title
- Culture, place, and nature
- Alternative Title
- Property and politics in Sabah, Malaysia
- Subject
- Land tenure > Law and legislation > Malaysia > Sabah
- Customary law > Malaysia > Sabah
- 86.77 agrarian law
- Customary law
- Land tenure > Law and legislation
- Indigenes Volk
- Politische Ökologie
- Landwirtschaftliches Bodenrecht
- Natürliche Ressourcen
- Land rights
- Malaysia
- Borneo
- Indigenous land rights
- Natural resources
- Malaysia > Sabah
- Sabah
- Dusun
- Sabah
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-212) and index.
- Contents
- Colliding discourses : western land laws and native customary rights in North Borneo, 1881-1928 -- Redefining native customary law in Govuton : struggles over property rights between native peoples and colonial rulers -- Resources, ideologies, and nationalism : the politics of development in postcolonial Sabah -- Land disputes in Tempulong : colonial land laws, customary practices, and the postcolonial state, 1950-1996.
- ISBN
- 0295985399
- 9780295985398
- LCCN
- 2005008068
- 9780295985398
- OCLC
- ocm58604504
- 58604504
- SCSB-8931767
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library