Becoming Landowners: Entanglements of Custom and Modernity in Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste Victoria 9780824889456

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• ISBN 13: 9780824889456
• Author: Victoria C. Stead

Across Melanesia, the ways in which people connect to land are being transformed by processes of modernization—globalization, the building of states and nations, practices and imaginaries of development, the legacies of colonialism, and the complexities of postcolonial encounters. Melanesian peoples are becoming landowners, Stead argues, both in the sense that these processes of change compel forms of property relations, and in the sense that “landowner” and “custom landowner” become identities to be wielded against the encroachment of both state and capital. In places where customary forms of land tenure have long been dominant, deeply intertwined with senses of self and relationships with others, land now becomes a crucible upon which social relations, power, and culture are reconfigured and reimagined.

Table of contents:

CHAPTER 1 Introduction

CHAPTER 2 Customary Connection to Land and Practices of Resilience

CHAPTER 3 Greeting the State

CHAPTER 4 Landowner Groups and the Codification of Custom in Papua New Guinea

CHAPTER 5 Making Land Work?

CHAPTER 6 Land Titling and State Building in Postconflict Timor-Leste

CHAPTER 7 Contesting Land, City, State, and Nation

CHAPTER 8 Conclusion

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