{"product_id":"gaining-ground-deborah-james-9781904385622","title":"Gaining Ground?: Rights and Property in South African Land Reform","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGaining Ground? Rights and Property in South African Land Reform\u003c\/em\u003e examines how land reform policy and practice in post-apartheid South Africa have been produced and contested. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in the province of Mpumalanga, the book gives an ethnographic account of local initiatives and conflicts, showing how the poorest sectors of the landless have defied the South African state's attempts to privatize land holdings and create a new class of African farmers. They insist that the 'rights-based' rather than the 'market-driven' version of land reform should prevail and that land restitution was intended to benefit all Africans. However their attempts to gain land access often backfire. Despite state assurances that land reform would benefit all, illegal land selling and 'brokering' are pervasive, representing one of the only feasible routes to land access by the poor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book shows how human rights lawyers, NGOs and the state, in interaction with local communities, have tried to square these symbolic and economic claims on land.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of the inaugural Elliott P. Skinner Book Award of the Association of Africanist Anthropology, 2008\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Deborah James\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1904385621\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781904385622\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge Cavendish\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/24\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 298\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.22h x 6.42w x 0.77d","brand":"Deborah James","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065922892031,"sku":"9781904385622","price":260.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a68ae57b-3d95-4ae0-86fd-553ad95d0636.jpg?v=1768677786","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gaining-ground-deborah-james-9781904385622","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}