Beschreibung
This volume reflects on how land tenure and governance and their connection with digitalisation can be researched from a transregional perspective. Over the decades, colonially inspired policies have tended to block people from prime lands controlled by the state, but which are then diverted to various non-public interests. Currently, observations show that digital approaches are employed by the state, customary authorities and ordinary grassroot people equally to strengthen their claims and authority, thus leading to reconstructions of land governance with associated dynamic contestations of authority and claims