Property & politics in Sabah, Malaysia : native struggles over land rights /
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| Author / Creator: | Doolittle, Amity Appell. |
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| Imprint: | Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2005. |
| Description: | x, 224 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Culture, place, and nature |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5751125 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : powerful persuasions : resource control and state rhetoric
- 1. Colliding discourses : western land laws and native customary rights in North Borneo, 1881-1928
- 2. Redefining native customary law in Govuton : struggles over property rights between native peoples and colonial rulers
- 3. Resources, ideologies, and nationalism : the politics of development in postcolonial Sabah
- 4. Land disputes in Tempulong : colonial land laws, customary practices, and the postcolonial state, 1950-1996
- Conclusion : imagining new environmental futures : alternative strategies for natural resource governance.