Dividing the commons : politics, policy, and culture in Botswana

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Author:

Peters, Pauline E.

ISBN:

9780813915470

9780813915517

Personal Author:

Peters, Pauline E.

Publication Information:

Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1994.

Physical Description:

xv, 277 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Foreword / Sara Berry -- Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Political Transformation: Morafe into District -- Ch. 3. "Our Complaint Is about Water": The Politics of Water Development in the Bechuanaland Protectorate -- Ch. 4. Setting the Terms of Policy Debate: Expansion and Control in the Common Range, 1950s to 1960s -- Ch. 5. "We Are Hemmed In": Cattle, Boreholes, and Syndicates -- Ch. 6. Constriction and Division in the Commons -- Ch. 7. Policies, Paradigms, and Practices: The Tribal Grazing Land Policy of Botswana -- Ch. 8. Dividing the Commons: Belonging and Difference in the Kgatleng -- Ch. 9. Competition over Land and the Cultural Politics of Social Differentiation -- Ch. 10. Conclusions.

Subject Term:

Commons -- Botswana -- History.

Land subdivision -- Government policy -- Botswana.

Pasture, Right of -- Botswana.

Development rights transfer -- Botswana.

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Summary

Pauline E. Peters shows how Africa's current grazing-land policy, like the water-development policies of the 1930s, is part of a historical process through which resources are allocated, wealth created or destroyed, and some interests promoted at the cost of others. At the heart of the dividing of the common range are struggles over meanings, cultural contestations over the definitions of property, and the priority of rights.