This paper examines how the new material value of land in postcolonial Vanuatu intensifies people's shaping and re-shaping of claims to autonomy and dependence. Ahamb, like many other villages in Melanesia, originated as a mission community with people moving in from various original homelands. The mix of people from different places facilitated new kinship bonds and senses of community. However, it has also sparked disputes over land rights and leadership, fuelled by the postcolonial government's incentives for converting customary land into registered titles and leases for wealthy investors. The possibility of leasing out land, and preventing others from leasing out land, creates a dynamic where groups increasingly define themselves in te...
ABSTRACT: This article discusses how dependency's antonym, ‘self‐reliance’ expresses and shapes aspi...
Some authors have suggested that agricultural land in Fiji is ever scarcer and concentrated in the h...
Some authors have suggested that agricultural land in Fiji is ever scarcer and concentrated in the h...
Among the least developed nations in the world, Vanuatu had the dubious distinction of being governe...
MA University of Hawaii at Manoa 2004Includes bibliographical references (leaves 118–122).This thesi...
The thesis is based on six months of fieldwork in Vanuatu in 2010. The objective of the study is to ...
"This paper has sought to highlight serious inequities that derive from the interaction of the forma...
Internationally there is a large and growing body of scholarly literature that describes problems of...
This article explores a primary source of legal studies, case-law, as a form of narrative in the con...
This article discusses how dependency’s antonym, ‘self-reliance’ expresses and shapes aspirations fo...
This article explores a primary source of legal studies, case-law, as a form of narrative in the con...
Vanuatu has two different systems of land tenure: a formal system inherited from the colonial period...
This study situates the concepts of land ownership and rights in the contexts of both local and mode...
East Timor gained formal independence in 2002. Its extended history of internal displacement through...
Why do Solomon Islands' villagers continue to engage with large scale logging projects by foreign co...
ABSTRACT: This article discusses how dependency's antonym, ‘self‐reliance’ expresses and shapes aspi...
Some authors have suggested that agricultural land in Fiji is ever scarcer and concentrated in the h...
Some authors have suggested that agricultural land in Fiji is ever scarcer and concentrated in the h...
Among the least developed nations in the world, Vanuatu had the dubious distinction of being governe...
MA University of Hawaii at Manoa 2004Includes bibliographical references (leaves 118–122).This thesi...
The thesis is based on six months of fieldwork in Vanuatu in 2010. The objective of the study is to ...
"This paper has sought to highlight serious inequities that derive from the interaction of the forma...
Internationally there is a large and growing body of scholarly literature that describes problems of...
This article explores a primary source of legal studies, case-law, as a form of narrative in the con...
This article discusses how dependency’s antonym, ‘self-reliance’ expresses and shapes aspirations fo...
This article explores a primary source of legal studies, case-law, as a form of narrative in the con...
Vanuatu has two different systems of land tenure: a formal system inherited from the colonial period...
This study situates the concepts of land ownership and rights in the contexts of both local and mode...
East Timor gained formal independence in 2002. Its extended history of internal displacement through...
Why do Solomon Islands' villagers continue to engage with large scale logging projects by foreign co...
ABSTRACT: This article discusses how dependency's antonym, ‘self‐reliance’ expresses and shapes aspi...
Some authors have suggested that agricultural land in Fiji is ever scarcer and concentrated in the h...
Some authors have suggested that agricultural land in Fiji is ever scarcer and concentrated in the h...