Territorial Appropriation in Belize: An Institutional Genealogy of Property

DOI:  https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/territorios/a.7738

Article Sidebar

PDF (Español (España)) HTML (Español (España)) Lector Inteligente (Español (España)) ePub (Español (España))

Published: Apr 16, 2020
Issue: No. 42-Esp. (2020): Territorial Knowledge in America Latin, Conflict Experiences and Accommodations
Section Thematic Section


Keywords: Property land rights colonial regime juridical-territorial knowledge.

Main Article Content

Authors

  Odile Hoffmann
Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social

Abstract

In Belize, land property rights have been instituted in colonial contexts marked by great precari­ousness, and juridical and political complexity. The process of the institution of land property registry took place in several phases that correspond to stages of colonial construction, each one generating different types of negotiation and interaction between political communities. The notions and legal categories elaborated around land property followed one another without replacing each other, and they reached interlaced configurations, splices, and overlays that lead to situations of extreme confusion. To understand the confusion and its political backgrounds, we propose a methodology that follows the legal territorial knowledge’s evolution through an institutional genealogy of property in four stages, over the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries.

How to Cite
Hoffmann, O. (2020). Territorial Appropriation in Belize: An Institutional Genealogy of Property. Territorios, (42-Esp.), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/territorios/a.7738
References

Anderson, J. (mayo, 2013). Mapping the politics of mahogany in Belize, 1786-1814.

San Ignacio, Belize: Association of Caribbean Historians. Ponencia presentada en la cuadrigésimo quinta conferencia anual de la Asociación Caribeña de Historiadores (ach), ach Ambergis Caye, Belice.

Antochiw, M., & Breton, A. (1992). Catálogo cartográfico de Belice. Cartographic catalogue of Belize, 1511-1880. México: cemca.

Barnett, C. N. (1991). The political economy of land in Belize, ‘Machete must fly’. (Tesis de doctorado, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica).

Barreyre, N., & Schor, P. (2009). De l’émancipation à la ségrégation: le Sud des États-Unis après la guerre de Sécession (1865-1896). Paris: puf.

Bolland, N. (2004). Colonialism and re¬sistance in Belize: Essays in historical sociology. Belice: Cubola Productions.

Bolland, N. O., & Shoman, A. (1977). Land in Belize, 1765-1871. Kingston: University of the West Indies.

Bristowe, L., & Wright, P. (1889). The handbook of British Honduras, 1888-1889. London: Blackwood.

Buttimer, A. (1969). Social space in interdisciplinary perspective. Geographical Review, 59, 417-26.

Colin, J.-P., le Meur, P.-Y., & Léonard, E. (Eds.). (2010). Les politiques d’enregistrement des droits fonciers: du cadre légal aux pratiques locales. Paris: Karthala.

Dobson, N. (1973). A history of Belize. London: Longman Caribbean.

Frémont, A. (1976). La région, espace vécu. Paris: puf.

Harcourt, L. (1912). Land in Crown colonies and protectorates and colonial office. Journal of the Society of Comparative Legislation, 13(1), 11-40.

Hoffmann, O. (2014). British Honduras: The invention of a colonial territory. Mapping and spatial knowledge in the 19th century. Belice: Cubola Production - ird.

Hoffmann, O. (2018). Las configuraciones territoriales de movilidad, o el espa¬cio como lenguaje político. En O. Hoffmann & A. Morales (Coords.), El territorio como recurso: movilidad y apropiación del espacio en México y Centroamérica (pp. 23-40). San José Costa Rica: una-flaso-ird.

Hoffmann, O. (2019). The end of the empire forestry? Issues of land possession in Belize, 1930-1950. En D. Guignard & I. Seri-Hersch (Eds.), Spatial appropriations in modern empires, 1820-1960 – beyond dispossession (pp. 50-74). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Lefebvre, H. (1974). La production de l’espace. París: Anthropos.

Leslie, R. (2004). A history of Belize, a nation in the making. Belize: Cubola Productions.

Lund, C. (2013). Propriété et citoyenneté. Dynamiques de reconnaissance dans l’Afrique des villes. Politique Africaine, 132(4), 5-25.

Sikor, T., & Lund, C. (2009). Access and property: A question of power and authority. Development and Change, 40(1), 1-22. Doi: https:// www.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467- 7660.2009.01503.x

Torras, R. (2014). Los refugiados mayas yucatecos en la colonización de El Petén: Vicisitudes de una frontera. Boletín Americanista, 2(69), 15-32.

Toussaint, M. (1993). Belice: Una historia olvidada. México: Instituto Mora-cemca.

Wainwright, J. (2003). Decolonizing development: Colonialism, Mayanism, and agriculture in Belize. (Tesis de doctorado, University of Minnesota).

Wainwright, J., & Bryan, J. (2009). Cartography, territory, property: Postcolonial reflections on indige-nous counter-mapping in Nicaragua and Belize. Cultural Geographies, 16, 153-178.

Query Statistics

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.
Publcation metrics

487 69




 

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Los autores conservan los derechos de autor y garantizan a la revista el derecho de ser la primera publicación del trabajo al igual que licenciado bajo una Creative Commons Attribution License que permite a otros compartir el trabajo con un reconocimiento de la autoría del trabajo y la publicación inicial en esta revista.

La revista no cobra cargos por publicar a los autores por el proceso de edición de los artículos.