Type de document
Ouvrage
Auteurs
Hoffmann Odile
Description: Belize, a British colonial territory until the 20th century, was long considered an “empty space” that needed to be organised by establishing colonial institutions – including property – and authorities that could regulate relations between Mayan inhabitants, land speculators, settlers and migrants of multiple origins. The book traces the construction of this colonial space, carried out with the help of territorial technologies consisting of norms and legislation (part one) and political negotiations (part two). Based on archival review and fieldwork conducted between 2008 and 2018, the research traces the conflictivity of the establishment of property in dialogue between these two perspectives.