Toon van Meijl / Franz von Benda-Beckmann (eds.)

Property Rights and Economic Development

Land and Natural Resources in Southeast Asia and Oceania
Herausgeber: Benda-Beckham, Franz von; Meijl, Toon van

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Produktbeschreibung

The assumption that a positive relationship exists between standardized property rights and economic development is upheld widely in most Southeast Asian and Pacific societies. Using an interdisciplinary approach and case studies, these papers assess the economic impact of standardized property rights on the land and natural resources in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Anthropological and sociological analyses of the relationship indicate a positive correlation may be difficult to sustain.

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This book provides a critical analysis of the widespread assumption that the formalisation and standardisation of property rights through state legislation has a positive impact on economic development. It is based on anthropological case studies of land and natural resource rights in Southeast Asia and Oceania. These suggest that the economic impact of the formalisation of property rights is not necessarily positive, certainly not for all categories of peoples. They also suggest that state reform of property rights do not necessarily eliminate the conditions of legal pluralism, but rather add new legal structures to an already complex constellation of property rights and duties. The point of departure for the empirical analyses of the central hypothesis examined in this book is that the practical significance of complex forms of property rights and related socio-economic practices cannot be usefully examined within formalistic, one-dimensional and normatively oriented legalistic or economic approaches. Instead, an anthropoligical approach to law is advocated in order to analyse the complicated, multi-dimensional relationships between property rights and economic development, and their embeddedness in social practice. Based on this approach, the contributions to this book show how different people and institutions attribute different meanings to the various components of property relationships, and how they use them as resources in their everyday lives and social struggles.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9780710306418
• ISBN-10: 0710306415
• Artikelnr.: 31581837

Autorenporträt

Toon van Meijl is a Senior Research Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences at the Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies of the University of Nijmegan, the Netherlands. Franz von Benda-Beckmann is Professor of Agrarian Law and Rural Development at the Agricultural University of Wageningen, the Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Franz and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann: 'A Functional Analysis of Property Rights
with Special Reference to Indonesia'
2. Indira Juditka Simbolon: 'Caring for Toba Land and the Environment: What about the People?'
3. Herman Slaats: 'Land Titling and Customary Rights: Comparing Land Registration Projects in Thailand and Indonesia'
4. Willem G. Wolters: 'The Development of Property Rights to Land in the Philippines
1850-1930'
5. Hartmut Holzknecht: 'Customary Property Rights and Economic Development in Papua New Guinea'
6. Anton Ploeg: 'Land Tenure and the Commercialisation of Agriculture in Papua New Guinea'
7. Leontine E. Visser: 'The Social Exchange of Land
Cloth
and Development in Irian Jaya'
8. Ad Borsboom: 'From Terra Nullius to Mabo: Land Rights and Self-Determination in Aboriginal Australia'
9. Eric Venbrux: 'A Glimpse of the Dreamtime: Property Rights and Tourism in the Tiwi Islands
Northern Australia'
10. Toon van Meijl: 'Settling Maori Land Claims: Legal and Economic Implications of Political and Ideological Contests'
About the Contributors