The Neithal Land People's Games

‘Indigenous Peoples’ and land: Comparing communal land titling and its implications in Cambodia and Laos

In 2001 a new Land Law was adopted in Cambodia. It was significant because – for the first time – it recognised a new legal category of people, ‘Indigenous Peoples’ or chuncheat daoem pheak tech in Khmer, and it also introduced the legal concept of communal land rights to Cambodia. Indigenous Peoples are not mentioned in the 1993 constitution of Cambodia or any legislation pre-dating the 2001 L...

Landspotting - Games for improving global land cover

Current satellite-derived land cover products, which are very important for answering many crucial questions, show huge disagreements. In this paper, we introduce four serious game prototypes – a Facebook strategy game played on Google Maps, a Facebook tagging game, a tower-defense game, and an aesthetic tile game for the iPad – with the purpose of improving global land cover data. We describe ...

The Peoples Republic of Monsters

Free All Monsters is a location-based game that turns a players iPhone into a Magic Monstervision Machine through which they can spot invisible monsters lurking in our city streets. The game draws upon Lefebvre’s concept of ‘the right to the city’ by encouraging the appropriation of the everyday space in which the game is played. It achieves this by presenting players with lusory goals anchored...

The Health of Indigenous Peoples

The Peoples Of Northern Ghana

Among the main ethnic groups discussed in the survey are: (1) Dagbani Nanuni and Moore–Gurma of Northern Region; (2) Dagaare – WaliBirifor of Upper West Region; and (3) "Frafra" – Nankani, Talni, Bulsa, Nabit, Kusaal, and Grusi of Upper East Region. Northern Ghana comprises the three northernmost administrative regions of Ghana: the Upper West Region, Upper East Region and Nor...