A terra em Timor-Leste: expondo a injustiça cognitiva nos conflitos fundiários
This article, based on multi-sited fieldwork, examines land tenure conflicts in Timor-Leste, aims to understand the close relationship between the modern property laws and colonial-capitalist strategies of resource appropriation, a relationship that engenders injustices. This socio-legal legacy, pre...
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| Language: | English |
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Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra
2020-06-01
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| Series: | e-cadernos ces |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/eces/5182 |
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| Summary: | This article, based on multi-sited fieldwork, examines land tenure conflicts in Timor-Leste, aims to understand the close relationship between the modern property laws and colonial-capitalist strategies of resource appropriation, a relationship that engenders injustices. This socio-legal legacy, present in the existing legal plurality, translates into the co-presence of knowledges and conflict resolution structures, where multiple authorities support the social order based upon a hybrid legality, integrating elements from local justice systems, national and supranational law. In a context in which the State in Timor-Leste constitutionally recognizes and values the norms and the customary, this recognition of the various systems of governance and justice administration present in the country opens up a broader dialogue regarding the socio-legal possibilities of interlegality, an important step towards overcoming cognitive injustices. |
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| ISSN: | 1647-0737 |