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Land tenure -- Vanuatu.
Land titles -- Vanuatu.
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My land, my life : dispossession at the frontier of desire / Siobhan McDonnell.
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McDonnell, Siobhan author.
Honolulu : Center for Pacific Islands Studies, School of Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2023]
Subjects
Land tenure -- Vanuatu.
Land titles -- Vanuatu.
ISBN:
9780824894450 (hardback : alk. paper) :
0824894456 (hardback : alk. paper)
Series:
Pacific islands monograph series ; no. 31.
Description:
xiv, 240 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Reciprocity as a Fugitive Anthropologist -- Weaving Narratives of Place -- Performing Property, Throwing Silver Dollars -- Custom Landownership a Frankenstein Corpse? -- The Frontier of Desire -- The Masters of Modernity -- Mama Graon.
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"Throughout Oceania, land is central to identity because it is understood to be spiritually nourishing and sustaining. Land is the mother. Land, and the kinship it nurtures, is the basis for sustaining livelihoods and ways of life. Therefore, Indigenous dispossession from the land has deep and far-reaching consequences. My Land My Life: Dispossession at the Frontier of Desire explores the land rush that took place in Vanuatu from 2001 to 2014 which resulted in over ten percent of all customary land being leased. In this book, Siobhan McDonnell offers new insights into the drivers of capitalist land transformations. Using multi-scalar and multi-sited ethnography she describes not simply a linear march toward commodification of the landscape by foreign interests, but a complex web replete with the local powerful Indigenous men involved in manipulating power and property. McDonnell meticulously describes land-leasing processes and maps the relationships between investors, middlemen, and local men. She shows how property is a tool with which foreigners reassert capitalism and neocolonial control over Indigenous landscapes. The legal identity of "landowner" contains foundational contradictions between the rights established in Vanuatu's kastom system and those afforded by property, as individualized rights over land. Property has also created sites for the production of masculine authority and enabled men to manipulate claims to land and entrench their personal power. This book explores how transactions of customary land have created new domains of agency and frontiers of desire: foreign desire to possess land and local desire to lease land for cash. It concludes with a discussion of Vanuatu's constitutional and land reform package, drafted by the author, which took effect in 2014 and delivered a more empathetic approach to Indigenous land rights and ended the land rush. Informed by decades of study, legal work, and community engagement, My Land My Life demonstrates an engaged anthropological practice based on reciprocity that responds directly to what Indigenous people have asked for. This book is certain to appeal to a wide range of scholars as well as policy makers"--
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