Legal Pluralism,Gendered Discourses,and Hybridity in Land‐titling Practices in Cambodia |
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| Authors: | Mikael Baaz Mona Lilja Allison Östlund |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden;2. Department of Sociological and Psychological Studies/Sociology, University of Karlstad, Universitetsgatan 2, 651 88 Karlstad, Sweden and School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, University of Gothenburg, Sweden;3. Faculty of Law, Economy and Finance, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
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| Abstract: | This article describes and analyses the tensions, ambivalence, and hybridity that prevail in the nexus between discourses of gender and the legal pluralism of the new, formalized, and customary ways of handling land titles. Based on empirical research in Cambodia, it reveals a number of mechanisms, challenges, and inconsistencies in the practice of land‐titling. Foremost, the practice of titling seems to be highly informed by local discourses of marriage, family, gender, and age, which all affect to whom land is assigned; this leaves a hybrid construction in the nexus between statutory law and customary practices. The article departs from this observation and adds three contributions – on a theoretical level – to existing research: by incorporating the dimensions of discourse analysis and legal hybridity, by linking the concept of legal pluralism to the process of hybridization, and by introducing the notion of hybridity of implementation as a supplement to hybridity of law. |
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