Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution

<em>The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution: 'Restoring What Was Ours'</em> offers a critical comparative ethnographic examination of land restitution programs. Drawing on memories and histories of past dispossession governments NGOs informal movements and individual claimants worldwide have attempted to restore and reclaim rights in land. Land restitution programs link the past and the present and may allow former landholders to reclaim lands which provided the basis of earlier identities and livelihoods. Addressing the practical and theoretical questions that arise this book offers a critical rethinking of the links between land restitution and property social transition injustice citizenship the state and the market.