Gender, property and politics in the Pacific : who speaks for land? / Rebecca Monson, Australian National University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Monson, Rebecca, 1979- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land tenure--Solomon Islands.

Land tenure.

Women's rights--Solomon Islands.

Women's rights.

Women and land use planning--Solomon Islands.

Women and land use planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 277 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Legal scholars, economists, and international development practitioners often assume that the state is capable of 'securing' rights to land and addressing gender inequality in land tenure. In this innovative study of land tenure in Solomon Islands, Rebecca Monson challenges these assumptions. Monson demonstrates that territorial disputes have given rise to a legal system characterised by state law, custom, and Christianity, and that the legal construction and regulation of property has, in fact, deepened gender inequalities and other forms of social difference. These processes have concentrated formal land control in the hands of a small number of men leaders, and reproduced the state as a hypermasculine domain, with significant implications for public authority, political participation, and state formation. Drawing insights from legal scholarship and political ecology in particular, this book offers a significant study of gender and legal pluralism in the Pacific, illuminating ongoing global debates about gender inequality, land tenure, ethnoterritorial struggles and the post colonial state.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Jan 2023).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781108953672 (ebook)

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