This is an original empirical and theoretical study of the use of law to secure land tenure in the face of poverty, urban and peri-urban growth and changing social structures.
This is an original empirical and theoretical study of the use of law to secure land tenure in the face of poverty, urban and peri-urban growth and changing social structures.\\
1Introduction : demystifying 'the mystery of capital'12Outside de Soto's bell jar : colonial/postcolonial land law and the exclusion of the peri-urban poor113Land readjustment for peri-urban customary tenure : the example of Botswana314Inheritance, HIV/AIDS and children's rights to land515Botswana : 'self-allocation', 'accommodation' and 'zero tolerance' in Mogoditshane and Old Naledi736Trinidad : 'we are not squatters, we are settlers'997Zambia : 'having a place of your own' in Kitwe1218Conclusions145