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DESCRIPTION:Land registration is one of the cornerstones of the Malagasy\ng
 overnment plans to improve economic development. Acting under\nstrong pres
 sure exerted by the IMF\, the Malagasy government\nlaunched the PNF (Plan 
 National Foncier) in 2004 to implement a\nnational land registration syste
 m. The land registry system is also\nintended to provide a platform for fu
 rther land and forest\nconservation measures. However\, land registration 
 has proven to be\ncomplex and problematic\, due to competing notions betwe
 en positive\nlaw and customary law. This paper proposes historical and\nan
 thropological perspectives on this issue and will discuss notions\nof the 
 natural environment and its conservation\, land access\,\nregistration\, d
 ispute resolution and the legitimacy of local fora\nanchored in customs ve
 rsus a judicial system inspired by French\nCivil Law. Land registration is
  a key area where Malagasy customs\ncollide with vazaha (foreign) economic
  and cultural references.\nThis lecture is the fruit of a joint research p
 roject between\nthe Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology (VU Uni
 versity\nAmsterdam) and the Institut de Civilisations/Musée d’Art et\nArch
 éologie (Université d’Antananarivo)\, which was launched in\nJanuary 2005.
  During the first three years of this research\,\nfourteen Dutch master st
 udents and fourteen Malagasy students\njointly carried out fieldwork and r
 esearch on natural resource\nmanagement and poverty. This unique project a
 llowed Malagasy and\nDutch researchers to exchange viewpoints and combine 
 synergies to\nbetter approach this important societal and academic themati
 c in a\ncomprehensive manner.\n_________________\nSandra Evers\, Ph.D. (Am
 sterdam 2001)\, is a tenured lecturer and\nsenior researcher at the Depart
 ment of Social and Cultural\nAnthropology\, VU University Amsterdam.  She 
 specialises in\nSouth West Indian Ocean studies\, with a particular focus 
 on\nMadagascar and the Seychelles. Dr Evers’ principal areas of\nresearch 
 cover migration\, slavery\, memory and cognition\, frontier\nsocieties wit
 hin the context of globalisation\, natural resource\nmanagement\, poverty 
 and sustainable development. She is the\ndirector of a joint research prog
 ramme on natural resource\nmanagement and poverty which combines the resou
 rces and expertise\nof the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology 
 (VU\nUniversity Amsterdam) and the Institut de\nCivilisations/Musée d’Art 
 et Archéologie (Université\nd’Antananarivo).\n
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LOCATION:Leacock Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2T7\, 855 rue Sherbroo
 ke Ouest
SUMMARY:Mini-Beatty Lecture Series: Dr. Sandra Evers\, 'Lex Loci meets Lex 
 Fori: Merging Customary Law and National Land Legislation in Madagascar'
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 ra-evers-lex-loci-meets-lex-fori-merging-customary-law-and-nationa-102109
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