Land Tenure, Gender and Globalisation : Research and Analysis from Africa, Asia, and Latin America (Original) ISBN: 9781552504635 Platform/Publisher: PQ ebrary / Canadian Electronic Library Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a time Subjects: Globalization : Economic aspects : Latin America.;
Drawing from field research in Cameroon, Ghana, Viet Nam, and the Amazon forests of Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru, this book explores the relationship between gender and land, revealing the workings of global capital and of peopleOCOs responses to it. A central theme is the peopleOCOs resistance to global forces, frequently through an insistence on the uniqueness of their livelihoods. For instance, in the Amazon, the focus is on the social movements that have emerged in the context of struggles over land rights concerning the extraction of Brazil nuts and baba u kernels in an increasingly globalized market. In Viet Nam, the process of OC de-collectivizingOCO rights to land is examined with a view to understanding how gender and other social differences are reworked in a market economy. The book addresses a gap in the literature on land tenure and gender in developing countries. It raises new questions about the process of globalization, particularly about who the actors are (local people, the state, NGOs, multinational companies) and the shifting relations amongst them. The book also challenges the very concepts of gender, land, and globalization. THE EDITORS Dzodzi Tsikata is Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, and Deputy Head, Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy, University of Ghana. Pamela Golah worked as a Program Officer with the Women's Rights and Citizenship Program at the International Development Research Centre, Canada. In 2009, she joined the Research and Evaluation Branch at Citizenship and Immigration Canada as a Policy and Research Analyst.
