TY - BOOK ID - 113584735 TI - Gender, property and politics in the Pacific : who speaks for land? PY - 2023 SN - 1108957226 1108953670 1108957021 1108844804 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Land tenure KW - Women's rights KW - Women and land use planning KW - Land use KW - Rights of women KW - Women KW - Human rights KW - Agrarian tenure KW - Feudal tenure KW - Freehold KW - Land ownership KW - Land question KW - Landownership KW - Tenure of land KW - Land use, Rural KW - Real property KW - Land, Nationalization of KW - Landowners KW - Serfdom KW - Planning KW - Civil rights KW - Law and legislation KW - Legal status, laws, etc. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:113584735 AB - 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. ER -