Le « Code des femmes » ? Conflits d’héritage, dynamiques de genre et usages du droit à Cotonou

Andreetta, Sophie

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“…Drawing inspiration from the literature on middle managers (Dalton 1959;Jackall 1988;Kunda 1992;Watson 1994;Hassard, McCann and Morris 2007;Whyte 2013), they focused on the role of HR managers in the implementation of mining companies' labour management strategies at the interface between expatriate executives, trade unions and state representatives. To study how labour inspectors, judges, or senior officials influence the organisation of work in mining companies, they built on recent ethnographies of the state in Africa (Blundo and Olivier de Sardan 2006; Bierschenk and Olivier de Sardan 2014; de Herdt and Olivier de Sardan 2015) while giving special consideration to the way in which state officials understand and use the law (see Rubbers and Gallez 2015;Andreetta 2018).…”

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Inside mining capitalism: The micropolitics of work on the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelts

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African Affairs

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The project received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement n° 646802). The ideas developed in this work reflect the authors' views alone. The ERC is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it containsA catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library ISBN 978-1-84701-286-9 (James Currey paperback) ISBN 978-1-80010-318-4 (James Currey ePDF)The publisher has no responsibility for the continued existence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate Cover image: Workers washing copper plates in a solvent extraction and electrowinning plant (photograph © Héritier Amonda

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Inside mining capitalism: The micropolitics of work on the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelts

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“…He manages the income from the rented property for his benefit. The youngest, and especially women, are increasingly claiming their share of inheritance, based on the recent Family Code (2004), and are less hesitant to go to court, which has led to an increase in the number of such cases (Andreetta, 2019).…”

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The Political Economy of Land Reform

Delville,

Houngbedji

2023

State Capture and Rent-Seeking in Benin

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This chapter analyses the recent land reform that was enacted by the 2013 Code Foncier et Domanial (Land and Domain Code) and its results at end 2018, five years after. 1 Its orientation is significantly different from the other chapters, both in its purpose and approach. It is not so much a question of highlighting desirable areas for reform as it is of analysing an ongoing reform. In particular, it deals with the political economy of the reform. It provides a detailed history of a complex and contradictory process, discussing the reform's political and economic stakes, the groups of actors and interests that pushed it, those who are opposed to it, and those who seek to shape it for their own benefit. 2 1 In French-speaking African countries, land law makes a distinction between 'land' issues, which are about private property, and 'domain' issues, which are about state (and local government) owned or controlled land. Several countries have a Land and Domain Code, which deals with both dimensions. This is the case in Benin since the advent of the 2013 Land and Domain Code, which I will simply call the 'Land Code' or 'Code' in this chapter. 2 See Plançon (2017) for a legal point of view. * This chapter does not include recent developments, which represent a new step but will only be evoked in the Afterword. For space considerations the discussion is limited in some instances. For further details, see Lavigne Delville (2019). The analysis presented here is based on long-term research on land reforms in West Africa, with the main focus on Benin, that was initiated some fifteen years ago, and in particular on a two-month research trip in autumn 2018 specifically devoted to the political issues of the 2013 reform and its 2017 update. It has also benefited from a complementary research mission carried out in March 2019 as part of the Economic Development and Institutions project. I would like to thank the discussants and participants of the workshop organised by the project in Grand Popo in March 2019, in particular Mr Djibril-Akambi, Agence Nationale du Domaine et du Foncier Deputy General Manager, Kenneth Houngbedji and Jean-Philippe Platteau, for their contributions. I also thank Clement Dossou-Yovo, lawyer and land expert, for our numerous exchanges on this reform during all these years. Finally, I thank Romain Houssa for his careful review.

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Le « Code des femmes » ? Conflits d’héritage, dynamiques de genre et usages du droit à Cotonou

Cited by 2 publications

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Inside mining capitalism: The micropolitics of work on the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelts

Inside mining capitalism: The micropolitics of work on the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelts

The Political Economy of Land Reform

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