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De-judicialization, Outsourced Review and All-too-flexible Bureaucracies in South African Land Restitution

Zenker, Olaf

In: The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 2015, vol. 33, no. 1, p. 81-96

This article takes as its starting point a peculiar land claim within the ongoing South African land restitution process – more specifically, the legal and administrative technicalities that allowed for the implosion of the accompanying court case in the Land Claims Court – to open up a space for reflection on the ambiguous nature of state bureaucracies as ambiguity-reducing machines. Tracing...