TY - BOOK AU - Chesters,Timothy TI - Land rights: the Oxford Amnesty lectures 2005 T2 - The Oxford Amnesty lectures SN - 9780199545100 AV - HD1251 .L36 U1 - 333.3 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Land tenure KW - History KW - Régimes fonciers KW - eclas KW - Droit foncier KW - Politique foncière KW - Population indigène KW - Autodétermination KW - fast N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-223) and index; Introduction / Timothy Chesters -- Land: intangible or tangible property? / Marilyn Strathern -- Response byLaura Rival -- Indigenous peoples and international human rights / Romeo Saganash -- Response by Ellen L. Lutz -- Standing in deep time; standing in the law : a non-indigenous Australian perspective on land rights, land wrongs, and self-determination / Frank Brennan -- Response by Marcus Colchester -- If this is your land, where are your stories? / Ken Wiwa -- Response by Adam Higazi -- Whose world is it anyway? / Richard Leakey -- Response by Lotte Hughes -- Strategies of the poor and some problems of land reform in the Eastern Cape, South Africa : an argument against recommunalization / William Beinart N2 - "Indigenous peoples and governments, industrialists and ecologists all use - or have at some stage to confront - the language of land rights. That language raises as many questions as it answers. Rights of the land or rights to the land? Rights of the individual or rights of the community? Even accepting that such rights exist, how to arbitrate between competing claims to land? Spanning as they do a wide range of intellectual territory, and their spheres of interest or activity ranging geographically from the Niger Delta to Papua New Guinea, from Quebec to the Eastern Cape, the contributors to this volume move across a range of different, and at times contradictory, approaches to land rights. Marilyn Strathern explores the divergent anthropologies of land, specifically regarding the equation of land and property. Cree lawyer and spokesman Romeo Saganash and Frank Brennan, an Australian lawyer and priest, explore the legal framework for land claims. The UN's International Decade of the Rights of Indigenous People recently ended in the failure of negotiating govemnents to accommodate, within international law, a 'collective' right to land. It is only by acknowledging this collective right to self-determination, both argue, that governments can come to terms with their indigenous populations and their own colonial past. Against the pleas of Brennan and Saganash, the Kenyan Richard Leakey, whose own history and politics is indissociable from that past, questions the whole notion of 'indigeneity'. The campaigner Ken Wiwa speaks too of the difficulties of redressing historical injustice is, especially in a region - the Niger Delta - where the indigenous Ogoni have no written record of their losses. Finally William Beinart, a historian and advisor to the South African government, outlines some of the practical difficulties of land reform in that country."--Publisher's description ER -