Derick Fay

University of California, Riverside, Anthropology, Faculty Member

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2017-18 Fulbright Scholar in South Africa.

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Anthropology and Environment Section

Anthropology News, Nov 1, 2006

Dilemmas of “Indigenous Tenure” in South Africa

Ohio University Press eBooks, Feb 29, 2012

Landmarked: land claims and restitution in South Africa

Review of African Political Economy, Jun 1, 2010

Walker&amp;#x27;s Landmarked is probably the best single-volume introduction to land restitut... more Walker&amp;#x27;s Landmarked is probably the best single-volume introduction to land restitution in South Africa. The book&amp;#x27;s great strength is the way it combines the emotional immediacy of attachment to land, detailed case studies, and national-level policy reflection in a single volume. This is possible because of the personal history and experience that Walker brings to the book, as the daughter of a white farmer in the Western Cape, a fieldworker with the land activist non-governmental organisation (NGO) the Association for Rural ...

Apartheid and the Erosion or Preservation of Medicinal Plant Knowledge

Human Ecology, Mar 21, 2012

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From Enslavement to Environmentalism: Politics on a Southern African Frontier

International Journal of African Historical Studies, 2007

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Tobias Haller (ed): Disputing the Floodplains: Institutional Change and the Politics of Resource Management in African Wetlands

Human Ecology, Jun 7, 2011

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Constituting Democracy: Law, Globalism and South Africa's Political Reconstructionby Heinz Klug Democracy Compromised: Chiefs and the Politics of the Land in South Africaby Lungisile Ntsebeza

Political and legal anthropology review, May 1, 2008

Crossing the Zambezi: The politics of landscape on a Central African frontier

Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Oct 1, 2010

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Tobias Haller (ed): Disputing the Floodplains: Institutional Change and the Politics of Resource Management in African

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Douglas L. Johnson and Laurence A. Lewis: Land Degradation: Creation and Destruction

Human Ecology, Sep 20, 2008

This volume, an updated edition of the authors&amp;amp;#x27; 1995 book, provides a readable a... more This volume, an updated edition of the authors&amp;amp;#x27; 1995 book, provides a readable and wide-ranging examination of land degradation, defined as “the substantial decrease in either or both of an area&amp;amp;#x27;s biological productivity or usefulness to humans due to human activities”(2). The book has a global, transhistorical and comparative scope, full of brief (generally two to eight pages) but wellchosen examples. The authors, both professors at Clark University&amp;amp;#x27;s Department of Geography, have written a text that is highly accessible to an ...

In the Company of Diamonds: De Beers, Kleinzee, and the Control of a Town:In the Company of Diamonds: De Beers, Kleinzee, and the Control of a Town

American Anthropologist, Mar 1, 2004

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Land reform in South Africa: caught by continuities

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Deactivation of field cultivation in communal areas of South Africa: Patterns, drivers and socio-economic and ecological consequences

Land Use Policy, 2019

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Association for Africanist Anthropology

Anthropology News, Dec 1, 2006

From Enslavement to Environmentalism: Politics on a Southern African Frontier by David McDermott Hughes

American Anthropologist, 2008

Was ‘Living Customary Law’ There All Along?

Land, Law and Chiefs in Rural South Africa, May 1, 2021

‘Land Complaints’ in Bizana, c.1940–1963: Living Customary Law in an Administrative Archive

Journal of Southern African Studies, 2021

The ‘land complaints’ files of the Transkei magistrates from the mid 20th century provide an unde... more The ‘land complaints’ files of the Transkei magistrates from the mid 20th century provide an under-recognised and important source regarding living customary law in South Africa. Land complaints were treated as ‘purely administrative’ rather than legal matters and hence not subject to appeals outside the Native Affairs Department, creating disincentives and obstacles to bringing claims grounded in living practice into fora where they might challenge official regulations and be ‘ascertained’ as customary law. Nevertheless, these sources reveal disputes, norms and practices that have not been recognised in official customary law, the administrative regulations governing land in the region or the post-apartheid jurisprudence on living customary law. I examine cases from the culturally conservative district of Bizana, in the north-eastern coastal Transkei, to highlight four issues: first, unmarried men could claim, acquire and maintain land rights; second, land would not revert to the h...

Prospects for redistribution of wealth through land reform in Dwesa-Cwebe

This paper examines the local potential for redistribution of wealth through land reform and subs... more

Cultivators in action, Siyazondla inaction?

In the Shadow of Policy

Participation and litigation: parallel routes to policy in the South African postcolony

Journal of Contemporary African Studies

Anthropology and Environment Section

Anthropology News, Nov 1, 2006

Dilemmas of “Indigenous Tenure” in South Africa

Ohio University Press eBooks, Feb 29, 2012

Landmarked: land claims and restitution in South Africa

Review of African Political Economy, Jun 1, 2010

Apartheid and the Erosion or Preservation of Medicinal Plant Knowledge

Human Ecology, Mar 21, 2012

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From Enslavement to Environmentalism: Politics on a Southern African Frontier

International Journal of African Historical Studies, 2007

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Tobias Haller (ed): Disputing the Floodplains: Institutional Change and the Politics of Resource Management in African Wetlands

Human Ecology, Jun 7, 2011

Download

Constituting Democracy: Law, Globalism and South Africa's Political Reconstructionby Heinz Klug Democracy Compromised: Chiefs and the Politics of the Land in South Africaby Lungisile Ntsebeza

Political and legal anthropology review, May 1, 2008

Crossing the Zambezi: The politics of landscape on a Central African frontier

Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Oct 1, 2010

Download

Tobias Haller (ed): Disputing the Floodplains: Institutional Change and the Politics of Resource Management in African

Download

Douglas L. Johnson and Laurence A. Lewis: Land Degradation: Creation and Destruction

Human Ecology, Sep 20, 2008

In the Company of Diamonds: De Beers, Kleinzee, and the Control of a Town:In the Company of Diamonds: De Beers, Kleinzee, and the Control of a Town

American Anthropologist, Mar 1, 2004

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Land reform in South Africa: caught by continuities

Go to AGRIS search. Try it! Land reform in South Africa: caught by continuities. ...

Deactivation of field cultivation in communal areas of South Africa: Patterns, drivers and socio-economic and ecological consequences

Land Use Policy, 2019

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Association for Africanist Anthropology

Anthropology News, Dec 1, 2006

From Enslavement to Environmentalism: Politics on a Southern African Frontier by David McDermott Hughes

American Anthropologist, 2008

Was ‘Living Customary Law’ There All Along?

Land, Law and Chiefs in Rural South Africa, May 1, 2021

‘Land Complaints’ in Bizana, c.1940–1963: Living Customary Law in an Administrative Archive

Journal of Southern African Studies, 2021

Prospects for redistribution of wealth through land reform in Dwesa-Cwebe

This paper examines the local potential for redistribution of wealth through land reform and subs... more

Cultivators in action, Siyazondla inaction?

In the Shadow of Policy

Participation and litigation: parallel routes to policy in the South African postcolony

Journal of Contemporary African Studies

In Response to Kepe et al

Forum for Development Studies, 2011

In this article, Kepe and his colleagues ask why land reform in South Africa has failed to produc... more In this article, Kepe and his colleagues ask why land reform in South Africa has failed to produce a &amp;#x27;fair deal&amp;#x27;; in answering, they argue that the combination of neoliberalization (in particular, the treatment of land as a commodity), the persistence of colonial structures and practices, and the &amp;#x27;invisibility&amp;#x27;of property-less people have led land reform in South Africa to focus narrowly on distributive justice, while neglecting substantive justice and procedural justice, particularly in the form of recognition and participation. These claims are made ...

Anthropology and Environment Section

Gibson J. L.. Overcoming Historical Injustices: Land Reconciliation in South Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xx + 310 pp. Figures. Tables. Appendixes. References. Index. $85.00. Cloth

African Studies Review, 2010

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