- View of ‘the victim’ – need to obtain perspectives of other land-interested people and what motivates their interest in the land (their perspective, options, needs).
- Note way in which gender plays itself out differently in relation to the different interests of the widow and mother-in-law within the patrilineal family
- Note the impact of the patrilineal system of inheritance on the youngest son who has no claim on the land once his mother dies, and no father or patrilineal kin for support or identity.
- Tendency in literature to take one spokesperson as representative of ‘household’/’family’ view and interests – policy development requires understanding of all perspectives before choices re priorities, target groups etc get made, ie to develop policy that would protect the interests and rights of CN without understanding these other perspectives could prove short-sighted. For instance, what are the rights of the first wife & child; should these be protected?
- Conceptual/methodological – HIV/AIDS exacerbates/speeds up/ intensifies social and economic processes already underway around health, morbidity, poverty, gender relationships, inheritance, stratification, land fragmentation (especially acute in E Africa), new tenure forms. How does one isolate it as a factor in research design so as to assess its impact and its relationship to other social forces? One idea is to compare such stories with those where land rights are threatened by other processes, eg other causes of death, illness, tenure change and poverty, as well as with stories of successful accumulation and production
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