scholarly journals Land Transactions and Chieftaincies in Southwestern Togo

2012 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Gardini
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Group Membership ◽  
Crucial Issue ◽  
Land Access ◽  
Land Title ◽  
Land Scarcity ◽  
Title Registration ◽  
Asymmetrical Power ◽  
Political Landscapes ◽  
Land Transactions

Land access is becoming a crucial issue in many African contexts, where groups and individuals are coping with land scarcity and increasing competition over resources. Based on fieldwork carried out in the southwestern region of Togo, this paper explores the plurality and adaptability of the forms of land access that have historically emerged from changing economic and political landscapes characterized by the rise and the decline of cocoa cultivation. Moreover, it analyses the current strategies (from manipulation of group membership and land title registration to renegotiation of previous sharecropping agreements) subjects in asymmetrical power relations use to reinforce or contest rights over land in a context of rising social tensions.

The Effects of Land Title Registration on Tenure Security, Investment and the Allocation of Productive Resources

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Agyei-Holmes ◽  
Niklas Buehren ◽  
Markus P. Goldstein ◽  
Robert Darko Osei ◽  
Isaac Osei-Akoto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tenure Security ◽  
Security Investment ◽  
Land Title ◽  
Title Registration

Factors influencing land title registration practice in Osun State, Nigeria

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 240-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Gbolahan Ekemode ◽  
Oluseyi Joshua Adegoke ◽  
Adetunji Aderibigbe
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Sampling Interval ◽  
Southwestern Nigeria ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Registration Process ◽  
Land Title ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Importance Index ◽  
Title Registration

Purpose The registration of land titles is an important component of title documentation and certification process that is influenced by a variety of factors. The purpose of this paper is, therefore, to examine factors influencing land title registration practice in Osun State, Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach Data used for this paper were collected from 520 land title registration applicants, representing 48.10 per cent of the total number of applicants for land title/property rights registration in Osun State, Southwestern Nigeria, using systematic random sampling technique, with sampling interval k = 5. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistical techniques, such as frequency distribution and percentages, relative importance index (RII) and factor analysis. Findings The findings revealed that factors such as high cost of title documentation and corrupt practices of land registry staff had significant influence on land title/property rights registration process, while factors such as suitability of organizational structure and personnel competence/low morale had less influence on land title registration in the study area. Practical implications The findings of this paper suggest the inadequacies inherent in the land title registration process in the study area which has significant implications for land titling registration process in Osun State, the entire Nigerian state and other emerging African economies. Originality/value The paper is one of the few papers that analyzed the factors influencing land title registration from the perspective of end-users in an emerging African economy like Nigeria.

scholarly journals Reality TV’s Embrace of the Intern

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 404-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanner Mirrlees
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Class Action ◽  
Reality Tv ◽  
Asymmetrical Power ◽  
Job Postings ◽  
Job Ads ◽  
Tv Production

In the preface to a seminal exposé of the “intern nation,” Ross Perlin (2012) writes, “reality TV truly embraces the intern” (xii). This article describes and analyzes how 20 reality TV intern job ads for 19 different reality TV studios represent the work of interns and internships in the capitalist reality TV industry. By interrogating how the job postings depict the work that reality TV studios expect interns to do, the skills that TV studios expect interns to possess as a prerequisite to considering them eligible for mostly unpaid positions, the asymmetrical power relations between studios and interns, and the studios’ utilization of “hope” for a career-relevant experience to recruit interns, the article argues that the reality TV intern is actually a misclassified worker. The study demonstrates that reality TV interns are workers whose labour feeds reality TV production and that reality TV internships are a means of getting workers to labour without pay. The conclusion establishes some grounds for a reality TV intern class action suit.  

scholarly journals Landowners’ perceptions towards the success of land title registration in Sri Lanka

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
N. C. Wickramaarachchi ◽  
S. Sewwandi ◽  
K. A. M. Thilini
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Land Title ◽  
Title Registration

Appraisal Theory

2015 ◽  
pp. 358-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patient Rambe
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
English Language ◽  
Appraisal Theory ◽  
First Year ◽  
Esl Students ◽  
English Language Acquisition ◽  
Asymmetrical Power ◽  
Expert Novice

While Writing Centres provide dialogic spaces for student articulation of voice, they insufficiently deal with asymmetrical power relations built into expert-novice conversations, which potentially disrupt novices' democratic expression of their voices. Yet the conversational nature of Facebook presents opportunities for ESL students to express their voices. This chapter: 1) Employs draft essays of first-year ESL students submitted to a Writing Centre to unravel their challenges with asserting their voice, 2) Uses reflective narratives of Writing consultants and ESL students to understand how their English language acquisition is impacted by their appropriation of Facebook and 3) Unravels how Facebook complements the mandate of Writing Centres of developing the academic voice of students. Findings suggest that students lacked confidence in asserting their authorial presence and familiarisation with academic conventions. Students and consultants' essays demonstrated a balanced appropriation of attitudinal and judgement categories and engagement resources, with implications for the potential of Facebook to mediate student expression of their voice.

Skin lands in Ghana and application of blockchain technology for acquisition and title registration

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwabena Mintah ◽  
Kingsley Tetteh Baako ◽  
Godwin Kavaarpuo ◽  
Gideon Kwame Otchere
Keyword(s):  
Current System ◽  
Land Acquisition ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Record Keeping ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Title Registration ◽  
The Government ◽  
Customary Land ◽  
Ownership Of Land ◽  
Land Transactions

Purpose The land sector in Ghana, particularly skin lands acquisition and title registration are fraught with several issues including unreliable record-keeping systems and land encroachments. The paper explores the potential of blockchain application in skin lands acquisition and title registration in Ghana with the aim of developing a blockchain-enabled framework for land acquisition. The purpose of this paper is to use the framework as a tool towards solving some of the loopholes in the process that leads to numerous issues bedeviling the current system. Design/methodology/approach The paper adopts a systematic literature review approach fused with informal discussions with key informants and leverages on the researchers’ own experiences to conceptualize blockchain application in skin lands acquisition in Ghana. Findings Problems bedeviling skin lands acquisition and title registration emanated from the issuance of allocation notes, payment of kola money and use of a physical ledger to document land transactions. As a result, the developed framework was designed to respond to these issues and deal with the problems. As the proposed blockchain framework would be a public register, it was argued that information on all transactions on a specific parcel of land could be available to the public in real-time. This enhances transparency and possibly resolves the issue of encroachments and indeterminate land boundaries because stakeholders can determine rightful owners of land parcels before initiating transactions. Practical implications Practically, blockchain technology has the potential to deal with the numerous issues affecting the smooth operation of skin lands acquisition and title registration in Ghana. Once the enumerated issues are resolved, there will be certainty of title to and ownership of land and property to drive investments because lenders could more easily ascertain owners of land parcels that could be used as collateral for securing loans. Similarly, property developers and land purchasers could easily identify rightful owners for land transactions. The government would be able to identify owners for land and property taxation. Originality/value This paper contributes to the literature on blockchain and application to land acquisition and title registration with a focus on a specific customary land ownership system.

Are We Justified in Conducting Invasive Research on Captive Apes for Their Wild Counterparts?

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 598-615
Author(s):  
Katlin Kraska
Keyword(s):  
Animal Rights ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Wild Population ◽  
Population Decline ◽  
Conservation Policy ◽  
Wild Animals ◽  
Wildlife Species ◽  
Asymmetrical Power ◽  
Species Membership ◽  
The Individual

Abstract Wildlife species are threatened for a variety of reasons; research on captive individuals of the same species can, in some circumstances, prevent wild population decline. Such decisions pit conservationists and animal rights advocates against one another—the former are interested in survival of the species and the latter in individual rights. I argue that invasive research on captive animals for the sake of wild animals is justifiable in cases of emergency only if it is the lesser of two evils. This requires that the individual chimpanzee be compensated for harms incurred. I then argue this logic generally does not apply to human beneficiaries of invasive research conducted on chimpanzees. This is not because species membership is morally significant, but because asymmetrical power relations characterized by dependency and vulnerability will always exist between the groups if human interests are at stake. The argument focuses on federal chimpanzee conservation policy.

scholarly journals Gadamer, Levinas, and the Hermeneutic Ontology of Ethics

Philosophies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Christopher King
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Hermeneutic Approach ◽  
Asymmetrical Power ◽  
The Right ◽  
First Philosophy

Much debate has been held over the question of whether Hans-Georg Gadamer’s hermeneutic approach to ethics and the other can do justice to the alterity of the other, as exemplified in Emmanuel Levinas’s approach to ethics as first philosophy. The challenge to Gadamer and to hermeneutics more generally, comes obliquely from Levinas and more directly, from Robert Bernasconi, who argues that Gadamer cannot account for an otherness that ends in incomprehensibility as one finds in encounters between persons of asymmetrical power relations—oppressed and oppressor, privileged and marginalized. Bernasconi’s critique has resulted in a flurry of hermeneutic responses that insist that Gadamer’s hermeneutics can, if understood in the right way, accommodate the other and serve as the foundation for robust ethical treatment of the other. I argue in this paper that participants in this debate have been insufficiently attentive to the ontologies that underlie the accounts of self and other in Gadamer and in Levinas. Because Gadamer and Levinas begin from different ontologies, their accounts of ethics and of the ground of ethics differ.

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