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Title: Battled ground KwaNdebele : a strategic-relational approach to land reform and traditional leadership in a former South African Homeland
Author(s): Kempen, JonathanLook up in the Integrated Authority File of the German National Library
Referee(s): Zenker, OlafLook up in the Integrated Authority File of the German National Library
Krämer, MarioLook up in the Integrated Authority File of the German National Library
Granting Institution: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Issue Date: 2024
Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (474 Seiten)
Type: HochschulschriftLook up in the Integrated Authority File of the German National Library
Type: PhDThesis
Exam Date: 2024-10-01
Language: English
URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:3:4-1981185920-1202738
Abstract: KwaNdebele’s history exemplifies many things that were wrong about Apartheid and the Homeland system: the instrumentalization of African elites, forced removals, and violent suppression of opposition. Until today some of the most urgent issues of the region are influenced by that particular history, because questions of land control and leadership continue to dominate the national discourse. Mixed-method ethnographic field research was conducted over an extended period in this context. The aim was to shed light on significant dynamics at the grassroots level of the South African land debate. The observed dynamics around land restitution and tenure reform that develop and persist in the everyday life of rural communities were embedded in theories from the structure-agency debate. Entangled streams of power that affect these communities are depicted through the lens of Jessop’s Strategic-Relational Approach and thus highlight the complexity behind South Africa’s land debate.
KwaNdebeles Geschichte steht beispielhaft für viele verwerfliche Praktiken aus der Zeit der Apartheid und der Homelands: die Instrumentalisierung lokaler Eliten, Zwangsumsiedlungen und gewaltsame Unterdrückung. Bis heute werden viele dringende Probleme der Region von dieser besonderen Geschichte beeinflusst. Konflikte um Landkontrolle und lokale Herrschaftsansprüche dominieren weiterhin den nationalen Diskurs Südafrikas. In diesem Kontext wurde über einen längeren Zeitraum ethnographische Feldforschung betrieben. Ziel war es hierbei, wichtige Dynamiken auf der Basisebene der südafrikanischen Landdebatte zu untersuchen. Beobachtungen rund um Landrückerstattung und Pachtreformen aus dem Alltag örtlicher Communities wurden in prominente Theorien der Struktur/Agency-Debatte eingebettet. Lokale ineinander verwickelte Machtströme werden durch die Linse von Jessops Strategic-Relational Approach dargestellt und heben so die eigentliche Komplexität der südafrikanischen Landdebatte hervor.
URI: https://opendata.uni-halle.de//handle/1981185920/120273
http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/118314
Open Access: Open access publication
License: (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 4.0(CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 4.0
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