Gender and Land Rights in Changing Global Contexts

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Description
Gender and Land Rights in Changing Global Contexts brings together gendered analyses of women’s land rights through academic and practice-led engagements across different countries. It draws out key issues that emerge from experience of law and policies at both the global and local levels, and shape women’s land rights within the particular arenas and jurisdictions addressed in the chapters. Existing commitments to secure women’s equal land rights at international levels, as well as within national laws, policies and administrative processes are evaluated in the specific contexts of Bangladesh, Cambodia, Burundi, India, Myanmar, Rwanda and Uganda. The authors bring a range of disciplinary perspectives to argue the importance of local, grounded strategies to develop and sustain the focus on women’s equal land rights as central to gender equality, sustainable development, post-conflict reconstruction and women’s empowerment.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: Gender and Land Rights in Changing
Global Contexts.
Chapter 2. We Agree On Condition No One Asks Why': Evaluating
the Global Mandate for Equal Security of Women's Property Rights
Chapter 3. Sustaining Sustainable Development: A Land and Gender Lens for Global Agenda Implementation
Chapter 4. Securing Women's Right to Land: The Indian Experience vis-à-vis the Promise of the Sustainable Development Goals
Chapter 5. The Gendered Ambiguities of Formally Equal Land Ownership in Rural Cambodia
Chapter 6. Recognition of the Land Rights of Adivasi Women in India
Chapter 7. Land-Use Conflicts, Gender and Informality: Insights from Bangladesh
Chapter 8. Women and Use of Technologies in Land Governance and Information Dissemination: The Case of Rwanda
Chapter 9. Weathering War and Recovering from Conflict: Gender and Land Rights in Post-conflict Reconstruction and Development.. David Betge
Chapter 10. Climate Change, Agroecological Practices and Smallholders in India: A Gendered Perspective
Chapter 11. Together We Stand: Developing a Community of Practice for Legal Empowerment Strategies Towards Securing Women's Land Rights
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Author Details
DR. REENA PATEL is an Indian-born lawyer and academic. She has teaching and research experience in the field of gender, law and development in the UK, Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia and has written on gender and land rights from socio-legal perspectives. Dr. Patel co-founded the South Asian Research Network on Gender, Law and Governance, a collaborative network of academics and leading practitioners across UK, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka