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Foreword / Ann Whitehead -- Introduction / Dzodzi Tsikata -- Gender, land tenure and globalisation : exploring the conceptual ground / Fion a D. Mackenzie -- Gender, globalisation and land tenure : methodologica l challenges and insights / Allison Goebel -- Economic liberalisation, changing resource tenures and gendered livelihoods : a study of small-s cale gold mining and mangrove exploitation in rural Ghana / Mariama Awu mbila and Dzodzi Tsikata -- The politics of gender, land and compensati on in communities traversed by the Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline project i n Cameroon / Joyce B.M. Endeley -- Facing globalisation : gender and la nd at stake in the Amazonian forests of Bolivia, Brazil and Peru / Noem i Miyasaka Porro ... [et al.] -- Gender, kinship and agrarian transitio ns in Vietnam / Steffanie Scott ... [et al.] -- Conclusion : for a poli tics of difference / Noemi Miyasaka Porro.

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