Homeownership, Legal Administration, And The Uncertainties Of Inheritance In South Africa's Townships: Apartheid's Legal Shadows
Homeownership, Legal Administration, And The Uncertainties Of Inheritance In South Africa's Townships: Apartheid's Legal Shadows
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南非乡镇的住房所有权、法律管理和继承的不确定性：种族隔离的法律阴影
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10.1093/afraf/adab001
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发表时间：
2021
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2.8
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Bolt M
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Bolt M
约翰内斯堡城镇住房拥有量的扩大为后种族隔离时代的正式融入提供了前景。然而，以前出租房屋的所有权分配的特点是，在所有权或继承权方面严重缺乏规范性共识。在激烈的房屋纠纷中，诉诸法律与习惯登记簿中的索赔相互冲突和交织。在许多地区性学术中，规范多元化为理解这类分歧提供了一个出发点。这篇文章提出了另一种观点，通过研究不同意见是如何通过法律-行政程序来调解和塑造的。法律在层层官僚冲突中变得不成熟，而有争议的习惯主张在与官僚机构的界面上变得尖锐起来。在南非，以行政管理为起点，在具体的法律经验中，在法律外的理解中，在亲属之间的争执中，揭示了种族隔离的长期阴影。这一视角阐明了城市财产继承这个鲜为人知的话题，对于理解不平等具有更广泛的意义。通过住房所有权纳入是一种“不利合并”形式，其特点是官方不透明、对法律缺乏信心、行政二元论层次化、所有权和继承权的参数不确定。
Expanded homeownership in Johannesburg’s townships offered the prospect of post-apartheid formal inclusion. Yet allocation of title to former rental homes has been characterized by a profound lack of normative consensus regarding ownership or inheritance. In bitter disputes over houses, appeals to law jostle and interweave with claims in a customary register. In much regional scholarship, normative pluralism provides a point of departure for understanding disagreement of this kind. This article proposes an alternative perspective by examining how dissensus is mediated and given shape by a legal–administrative process. Law becomes inchoate in layers of bureaucratic encounter, while contested claims to custom are sharpened at the interface with bureaucracy. In South Africa, taking administration as a starting point reveals the long shadows of apartheid in concrete experiences of the law, in extra-legal understandings, and in the very terms of contestation among kin. Illuminating the little-explored topic of urban property inheritance, the perspective has broader implications for understanding inequality. Inclusion through homeownership is a form of ‘adverse incorporation’ marked by official opacity, diffidence regarding the law, stratifying administrative dualism, and uncertainty about the parameters of ownership and inheritance.