Kastom, property and ideology

Land transformations in Melanesia

Siobhan McDonnell, Matthew G. Allen, Colin Filer

• Publisher: ANU Press
• Year: 2017
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781760461065
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Global Politics
• Index: Social Sciences

The relationship between customary land tenure and 'modern' forms of landed property has been a major political issue in the 'Spearhead' states of Melanesia since the late colonial period, and is even more pressing today, as the region is subject to its own version of what is described in the international literature as a new 'land rush' or 'lan

Table of contents

• Tables
• Figures
• Contributors
• Foreword
• Powers of Exclusion in Melanesia
• Urban Melanesia: The Challenges of Managing Land, Modernity and Tradition
• Urban Land in Solomon Islands: Powers of Exclusion and Counter‑Exclusion
• ‘There’s Nothing Better than Land’: A Migrant Group’s Strategies for Accessing Informal Settlement Land in Port Moresby
• Informal Land Markets in Papua New Guinea
• The Formation of a Land Grab Policy Network in Papua New Guinea
• Oil Palm Development and Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Papua New Guinea
• The Political Ramifications of Papua New Guinea’s Commission of Inquiry
• Urban Land Grabbing by Political Elites: Exploring the Political Economy of Land and the Challenges of Regulation
• Making the Invisible Seen: Putting Women’s Rights on Vanuatu’s Land Reform Agenda
• From Colonial Intrusions to ‘Intimate Exclusions’: Contesting Legal Title and ‘Chiefly Title’ to Land in Epi, Vanuatu
• Landownership as Exclusion
• The Politics of Property: Gender, Land and Political Authority in Solomon Islands
• Afterword: Land Transformations and Exclusion across Regions