TY - BOOK ID - 85474418 TI - Property and political order in Africa : land rights and the structure of politics PY - 2014 SN - 1107723205 1139629255 1107040698 1107649935 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Land tenure KW - Land use, Rural KW - Land use KW - Central-local government relations KW - Ethnicity KW - Ethnic conflict KW - Conflict, Ethnic KW - Ethnic violence KW - Inter-ethnic conflict KW - Interethnic conflict KW - Ethnic relations KW - Social conflict KW - Ethnic identity KW - Group identity KW - Cultural fusion KW - Multiculturalism KW - Cultural pluralism KW - Center-periphery government relations KW - Local-central government relations KW - Local government-central government relations KW - Political science KW - Decentralization in government KW - Federal government KW - Land KW - Land utilization KW - Use of land KW - Utilization of land KW - Economics KW - Land cover KW - Landscape assessment KW - NIMBY syndrome KW - Rural land use KW - Agriculture KW - Agrarian tenure KW - Feudal tenure KW - Freehold KW - Land ownership KW - Land question KW - Landownership KW - Tenure of land KW - Real property KW - Land, Nationalization of KW - Landowners KW - Serfdom KW - Political aspects KW - Government policy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85474418 AB - In sub-Saharan Africa, property relationships around land and access to natural resources vary across localities, districts and farming regions. These differences produce patterned variations in relationships between individuals, communities and the state. This book captures these patterns in an analysis of structure and variation in rural land tenure regimes. In most farming areas, state authority is deeply embedded in land regimes, drawing farmers, ethnic insiders and outsiders, lineages, villages and communities into direct and indirect relationships with political authorities at different levels of the state apparatus. The analysis shows how property institutions - institutions that define political authority and hierarchy around land - shape dynamics of great interest to scholars of politics, including the dynamics of land-related competition and conflict, territorial conflict, patron-client relations, electoral cleavage and mobilization, ethnic politics, rural rebellion, and the localization and 'nationalization' of political competition. ER -