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Property and territory

Origins of a colonial order in Belize in the 19th and 20th centuries

De Odile Hoffmann
IRD Éditions/Cubola Productions
Collection : D'Amérique latine
janvier 2022
Livre papier
format 160 x 230 214 pages En stock
17,00 €
eBook [PDF]
214 pages Téléchargement immédiat
8,50 €

Présentation

For a long time, the genre of Belizean historiography has been defined by a blindness toward the Earth. If colonial historiography treated the Earth as nothing more than brute nature—a blank canvas upon which the British did their business—then critical or post-colonial historiography has generally ignored the problem.

Odile Hoffmann confronts this situation with a major two-part intervention into Belizean historiography. The first contribution was published by Cubola in co-edition with the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) in 2014. Entitled British Honduras: The invention of a colonial territory, mapping and spatial knowledge in the 19th century, the book compiles the most important maps in the history of the colonization of British Honduras.

Property and Territory: Origins of a colonial order provides Belizeans and scholars of Belize with the first proper study of the transformation of the Earth into its two familiar forms: territory and property.

The becoming-property and territorialization of the land we call Belize is the central object of analysis in Hoffmann’s study. Drawing upon extensive archival research as well as interviews with diverse actors, the book explains the geographical and political complexities surrounding land in Belize.

The book’s three closing chapters provide historical case studies of land politics in Corozal, Orange Walk, and Toledo. The result is the most important study of land in Belize since the path-breaking work by O. Nigel Bolland and Assad Shoman in 1977.

With these two volumes, Hoffmann has made a singular contribution. Above all, these books demonstrate beyond a doubt that the making of modernity in Belize was a process of transforming the Earth into property and territory—a process initiated for the sake of a profoundly unequal colonial order, which, forty years after independence, lives on.

Caractéristiques

Editeur : IRD Éditions/Cubola Productions

Auteur(s) : Odile Hoffmann

Collection : D'Amérique latine

Publication : 13 janvier 2022

Intérieur : Noir & blanc

Support(s) : Livre papier, eBook [PDF]

Contenu(s) : PDF

Protection(s) : Marquage social (PDF)

Poids (en grammes) : 400

Taille(s) : 4,9 Mo (PDF)

Langue(s) : Anglais

EAN13 Livre papier : 9789768161666

EAN13 eBook [PDF] : 9782709928083

Sommaire

PART 1: From land regulation to government territorial techniques: the tools of colonial territorialisation

  • Chapter 1. The foundations of a precarious late colonial order
  • Chapter 2. Discriminatory land regulation
  • Chapter 3. Development of the legal-administrative system of land tenure
  • Chapter 4. The instruments of territorial intervention

PART 2: Three colonial and post-colonial transition experiments in land management systems

  • Chapter 5. Northern Belize: a laboratory for territorial hospitality and exclusion
  • Chapter 6. The end of the empire in Belize, the BEC and forest policy
  • Chapter 7. Maya mobilisation in the Toledo District: from land to territory

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Contributions

  • Odile Hoffmann (auteur)

    Odile Hoffmann es investigadora del IRD, geógrafa, profesora huésped del CIESAS-Golfo.

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