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Land Restitution

Land restitution is a legal and political process within transitional justice and post-conflict reconstruction that specifically restores ownership, possession, or control of land and natural resources to Indigenous peoples or forcibly displaced communities as a form of redress for historical dispossession resulting from conflict, colonization, or systemic discrimination.

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Landmarked: land claims and land restitution in South Africa

Choice Reviews Online · 2009 · 133 citations

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Elasticity of Land: Problems of Property Restitution in Transylvania

Katherine Verdery · Slavic Review · 1994 · 109 citations

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Citizenship Deferred: The Politics of Victimhood, Land Restitution and Gender Justice in the Colombian (Post?) Conflict

Donny Meertens, Mayteé Zambrano · International Journal of Transitional Justice · 2010 · 103 citations

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Land reform in South Africa

Lionel Cliffe · Review of African Political Economy · 2000 · 85 citations · Full text

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The problem of defining ‘community’: Challenges for the land reform programme in rural South Africa

Thembela Kepe · Development Southern Africa · 1999 · 82 citations

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Authors

122

  1. JD
    Jon D. Unruh

    McGill University, Canada

    4 publications · 61 citations

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  2. CB
    Christiaan Beyers

    Trent University, Canada

    4 publications · 53 citations

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  3. KV
    Katherine Verdery

    Johns Hopkins University, United States

    3 publications · 183 citations

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  4. DJ
    Deborah James

    London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 72 citations

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  5. BA
    Bernadette Atuahene

    Illinois Institute of Technology, United States

    3 publications · 95 citations

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Institutions

70

  1. University of the Western Cape

    Cape Town, South Africa

    7 h-index

    7 publications

    205 citations

  2. University of the Witwatersrand

    Johannesburg, South Africa

    5 h-index

    7 publications

    106 citations

  3. University of Cape Town

    Rondebosch, South Africa

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    247 citations

  4. University of Pretoria

    Pretoria, South Africa

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    80 citations

  5. Stellenbosch University

    Stellenbosch, South Africa

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    154 citations

  6. McGill University

    Montreal, Canada

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    40 citations

  7. University of the Free State

    Bloemfontein, South Africa

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    45 citations

  8. Illinois Institute of Technology

    Chicago, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    79 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Southern African Studies

    JASS · 8 publications · 203 citations

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  2. Land Use Policy

    7 publications · 124 citations

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  3. Development and Change

    5 publications · 93 citations

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  5. Journal of Agrarian Change

    4 publications · 74 citations

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