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Codifying the Land: Colonial land regulation in early 20th-century British Borneo
The role of land codes in the allocation of indigenous lands to colonial developers in North Borneo is examined. It is argued that such codes, by defining how indigenous peoples could secure their rights to land, provided an important framework to encourage the expansion of plantation production. The expansion of rubber and tobacco plantations, coupled with prevailing colonial attitudes to shifting cultivation, were important catalysts in the alienation of land from indigenous peoples. The clash between Western conceptions of private property and indigenous notions of communal ownership and control encapsulated the complex economic and cultural conflicts that the expansion of colonial settlement and development in the tropics engendered.
Codifying the Land: Colonial land regulation in early 20th-century British Borneo
The role of land codes in the allocation of indigenous lands to colonial developers in North Borneo is examined. It is argued that such codes, by defining how indigenous peoples could secure their rights to land, provided an important framework to encourage the expansion of plantation production. The expansion of rubber and tobacco plantations, coupled with prevailing colonial attitudes to shifting cultivation, were important catalysts in the alienation of land from indigenous peoples. The clash between Western conceptions of private property and indigenous notions of communal ownership and control encapsulated the complex economic and cultural conflicts that the expansion of colonial settlement and development in the tropics engendered.
Codifying the Land: Colonial land regulation in early 20th-century British Borneo
Cleary, Mark (author)
Landscape Research ; 27 ; 25-37
2002-01-01
13 pages
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