Socioeconomic change and land use in Africa : the transformation of property rights in Maasailand / Esther Mwangi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mwangi, Esther.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land tenure--Kenya--Kajiado District.

Land tenure.

Land use--Kenya--Kajiado District.

Land use.

Maasai (African people)--Land tenure--Kenya--Kajiado District.

Maasai (African people).

Maasai (African people)--Land tenure.

Kenya--Kajiado District.

Physical Description:

xvi, 219 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

This study investigates how and why group ranch members in Kajiado District, Kenya, supported the subdivision of their collective landholdings into individual, titled units, and what outcomes resulted&from this transition to individual rights. &Viewed over a longer time scale, the author finds that politics is at the core of institutional change: land-owners increasingly seek exclusive rights in an effort to defend their land claims against threats of appropriation by the state, by Maasai elite, and by non-Maasai.&

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-200) and index.

ISBN:

1403980055

9781403980052

OCLC:

76416614

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