In the Shadow of Policy (EPUB) von Paul Hebinck

In the Shadow of Policy will be a key reference tool for those working in the area of development studies and land policy, and for civil society groups and NGOs involved in land restitution.

Part One: Setting the Scene Land and Agrarian Reform in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Chapter 1 Post-apartheid land and agrarian reform policy and practices in South Africa: themes, processes and issues - Paul Hebinck
Chapter 2 Land and agrarian reform policies from a historical perspective - Paul Hebinck
Chapter 3 Land reform and agriculture uncoupled: the political economy of rural reform in post-apartheid South Africa - Ben Cousins
Part Two: 'Mind the Gap': Discrepancies between Policies and Practices in South African Land Reform
Chapter 4 Consultants, business plans and land reform practices - Francois Marais
Chapter 5 ‘Seeing like a land reform agency’: cultural politics and the contestation of community farming at Makhoba - Yves van Leynseele
Chapter 6 Land reform and newly emerging social relations on Gallawater A farm - Modise Moseki
Chapter 7 Property rights and land reform in the Western Cape - Harriët Tienstra and Dik Roth
Chapter 8 ‘Rent a crowd’ land reform at Survive and Dikgoho land reform projects - Limpho Taoana
Chapter 9 Locating policies in the daily practices of land reform beneficiaries: the Mighty and Wales land reform farms - Malebogo Phetlhu
Chapter 10 Where are the youth in land reform? The Vuki case - Petunia Khutswane
Chapter 11 Land compensation in the upper Kat River valley - Robert Ross
Chapter 12 In the shadows of the cadastre: family law and custom in Rabula and Fingo Village - Rosalie Kingwill
Chapter 13 Land reform, tradition and securing land for women in Namaqualand - Karin Kleinbooi
Part Three: Competing Knowledge Regimes in Communal Area Agriculture
Chapter 14 What constitutes ‘the agrarian’ in contemporary rural African settlements of the central Eastern Cape? - Paul Hebinck and Wim van Averbeke
Chapter 15 The Massive Food Production Programme: a case study of agricultural policy continuities and changes - Klara Jacobson
Chapter 16 The Massive Food Production Programme: does it work? - Zamile Madyibi
Chapter 17 ‘Still feeding ourselves’: everyday practices of the Siyazondla Homestead Food Production Programme in Mbhashe - Henning de Klerk
Chapter 18 Cultivators in action, Siyazondla in action? Trends and potentials in homestead cultivation - Derick Fay
Chapter 19 Smallholder irrigation schemes as an agrarian development option for the Cape region - Wim van Averbeke and Jonathan Denison
Chapter 20 Cattle and rural development in the Eastern Cape: the Nguni project revisited - Ntombekhaya Faku and Paul Hebinck
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