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    Policy Discourses on Women’s Land Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Implications of the Re-turn to the Customary

    Whitehead, Ann, and Dzodzi Tsikata. 2003. “Policy Discourses on Women’s Land Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Implications of the Re-turn to the Customary.” Journal of Agrarian Change 3 (1-2): 67-112.

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    Topics: Civil Society, Clan, Coloniality/Post-Coloniality, Gender, Women, Gendered Power Relations, Patriarchy, Gender Equality/Inequality, Land Tenure, Governance, Households, Political Economies, Rights, Land Rights, Property Rights, Women's Rights Regions: Africa Keywords: customary law, land tenure reform, women's land interests, legal pluralism

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    Gender and Land Reform: The Zimbabwe Experience

    Goebel, Allison. 2005. Gender and Land Reform: The Zimbabwe Experience. Montreal, Canada: McGill-Queen’s University Press.

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    Topics: Class, Coloniality/Post-Coloniality, Economies, Poverty, Gender, Women, Governance, Households, Livelihoods, Political Economies, Race, Rights, Land Rights, Property Rights, Women's Rights Regions: Africa, Southern Africa Countries: Zimbabwe

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    ‘Without Land We Are Nothing’: The Effect of Land Tenure Policies and Practices upon Rural Women in Kenya

    Davison, Jean. 1987. “‘Without Land We Are Nothing’: The Effect of Land Tenure Policies and Practices upon Rural Women in Kenya.” Rural Africana 27: 19–33.

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    Topics: Coloniality/Post-Coloniality, Agriculture, Economies, Gender, Women, Land Tenure, Households, Livelihoods, Rights, Land Rights, Women's Rights Regions: Africa, East Africa Countries: Kenya

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    Land, Graves and Belonging: Land Reform and the Politics of Belonging in Newly Resettled Farms in Gutu, 2000–2009

    Mujere, Joseph. 2011. “Land, Graves and Belonging: Land Reform and the Politics of Belonging in Newly Resettled Farms in Gutu, 2000–2009.” Journal of Peasant Studies 38 (5): 1123–44. doi:10.1080/03066150.2011.634501.

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    Topics: Coloniality/Post-Coloniality, Displacement & Migration, Governance, Rights, Land Rights Regions: Africa, Southern Africa Countries: Zimbabwe

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    Daughters of the Lakes and Rivers: Colonization and the Land Rights of Luo Women

    Okeyo, Pala Achola. 1980. “Daughters of the Lakes and Rivers: Colonization and the Land Rights of Luo Women.” In Women and Colonization: Anthropological Perspectives, edited by Mona Etienne and Eleanor Leacock, 186–213. New York: Praeger.

    Topics: Coloniality/Post-Coloniality, Gender, Women, Rights, Land Rights, Women's Rights Regions: Africa, East Africa

  6. Research

    Review of the Gender Dimensions of Land-Based Conflict in the Pacific

    Nelson, Gayle. 2008. Review of the Gender Dimensions of Land-Based Conflict in the Pacific. Suva, Fiji: Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, Land Management and Conflict Minimisation.

    Topics: Armed Conflict, Coloniality/Post-Coloniality, Development, Environment, Gender, Gendered Power Relations, Gender Equality/Inequality, Governance, Infrastructure, Water & Sanitation, Rights, Land Rights

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    Zimbabwe's 'Fast Track' Land Reform: What about Women?

    Goebel, Allison. 2005. “Zimbabwe’s ‘Fast Track’ Land Reform: What about Women?” Gender, Place & Culture 12 (2): 145–72. doi: 10.1080/09663690500094799.

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    Topics: Civil Society, Class, Coloniality/Post-Coloniality, Displacement & Migration, Forced Migration, Gender, Gender Roles, Gendered Power Relations, Patriarchy, Gender Equality/Inequality, Households, International Organizations, Justice, Land Grabbing, NGOs, Rights, Land Rights, Women's Rights Regions: Africa, Southern Africa Countries: Zimbabwe

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    Promises of Peace and Development: Mining and Violence in Guatemala

    Caxaj, C. Susana, Helene Berman, Jean-Paul Restoule, Colleen Varcoe, and Susan L. Ray. 2013. "Promises of Peace and Development: Mining and Violence in Guatemala." Advances in Nursing Science 36 (3): 213-28.

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    Topics: Coloniality/Post-Coloniality, Poverty, Extractive Industries, Gender, Genocide, Health, Indigenous, Rights, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Women's Rights, Violence Regions: Americas, Central America Countries: Guatemala Keywords: colonialism, conflict, dispossession, indigenous health, mining, peace, poverty

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    Women, Men, and the Legal Languages of Mining in the Colonial Andes

    Bigelow, Allison Margaret. 2016. “Women, Men, and the Legal Languages of Mining in the Colonial Andes.” Ethnohistory 63 (2): 351–80. 
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    Topics: Coloniality/Post-Coloniality, Economies, Extractive Industries, Gender, Women, Indigenous, Rights, Land Rights Regions: Americas, South America Countries: Bolivia, Peru Keywords: colonial science, technical literacies, law, gender, Andes

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    The Politics of Property: Gender, Land and Political Authority in Solomon Islands

    Monson, Rebecca. 2017. “The Politics of Property: Gender, Land and Political Authority in Solomon Islands.” In Kastom, Property and Ideology: Land Transformations in Melanesia, edited by Siobhan McDonnell, Matthew G. Allen, and Colin Filer, 383-404. Canberra: ANU Press.

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    Topics: Coloniality/Post-Coloniality, Development, Economies, Gender, Gendered Power Relations, Gender Equality/Inequality, Land Tenure, Rights, Land Rights, Women's Rights Regions: Oceania Countries: Solomon Islands

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