Real acts, imagined landscapes

dc.contributor.authordu Toit, Andries
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-02T10:28:50Z
dc.date.available2019-04-02T10:28:50Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractWhy do we want land and agrarian reform? Why should its policies be supported? Much can be said about its stated purposes and goals, but why do those goals matter — and to whom? If, as James Ferguson remarked earlier in this colloquium (Ferguson 2011), ‘land’ can have a multitude of functions — if it is true that we can’t just assume we know what ‘land’ is for — do we necessarily know what ‘land reform’ is for? Perhaps, following Ferguson, we could think of land reform itself as rather like one of John Austin’s ‘speech acts’. Austin thought we could learn a lot by exploring just how many things we can ‘do with words’ (Austin 1962): perhaps the same is true of land reform itself.en_US
dc.identifier.citationdu Toit, A., 2011. Real acts, imagined landscapes. Cape Town: Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS).en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/4605
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInstitute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS)en_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectLand reformen_US
dc.subjectAgrarian reformen_US
dc.titleReal acts, imagined landscapesen_US
dc.typeOtheren_US

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