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Conflicting Concepts: Contested Land Relations in North-Western Vietnam

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dc.contributor.author Sikor, Thomas
dc.date.accessioned 2012-06-26T18:33:33Z
dc.date.available 2012-06-26T18:33:33Z
dc.date.issued 2003 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/8036
dc.description.abstract "This papers examines land reforms in villages of north-western Vietnam. Land allocation provided a window in which different conceptions of land tenure came to light. Villagers resisted the implementation of key elements of the new land legislation, though the new law purported to extend people's control over land. People's resistance manifested a fundamental disjuncture between the exclusive and territorial concept of land tenure promoted in the new land law and people's lived land relation. People refused to give up the substance of land relations that had proven useful before collectivisation, under collective agriculture, and again in the initial years of decollectivization. People's reactions highlight how postsocialist land reforms provoke their own forms of resistance. Villagers negotiate the reforms in conflicts over resources and authority as well as over the very concept of landed property. This paper examines the nature of these conflicts, explores their linkages with socialist and postsocialist land legislation, and relates them to the larger literature on postsocialist property relations." en_US
dc.language English en_US
dc.subject IASC en_US
dc.subject land tenure and use en_US
dc.subject law en_US
dc.subject property rights en_US
dc.subject social networks en_US
dc.subject conflict en_US
dc.subject transitional economics en_US
dc.title Conflicting Concepts: Contested Land Relations in North-Western Vietnam en_US
dc.type Conference Paper en_US
dc.type.published unpublished en_US
dc.type.methodology Case Study en_US
dc.coverage.region East Asia en_US
dc.coverage.country Vietnam en_US
dc.subject.sector Land Tenure & Use en_US
dc.subject.sector Social Organization en_US
dc.identifier.citationconference Politics of the Commons: Articulating Development and Strengthening Local Practices en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfdates July 11-14 en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfloc Chiang Mai, Thailand en_US


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