Bumbling Bureaucrats, Sluggish Courts and Forum-Shopping Elites: Unending Conflict and Competition in the Transition to Private Property

Mwangi, Esther

doi:10.1057/ejdr.2010.38

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“…The key problem with the "Big Government" approach is the predominance of centralised government agencies in shaping NRM regimes. Such interaction between government agencies and resource users often result in patterns of resource use that are not sufficiently flexible to adjust to sudden shocks to the system, such as climate variability (Adger et al 2005;Mwangi and Ostrom 2008), or to excluding the influence of powerful interest groups appropriating rights to land and resources even when governments have dedicated programmes to protect local communities (Colfer and Capistrano 2005;Mwangi 2007Mwangi , 2010Larson et al 2010). …”

Section: Approaches To Integrating Cross-scale or Cross-level Coordinmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multi-level governance of forest resources (Editorial to the special feature)

Mwangi¹,

Wardell

2012

Int J Commons

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A major challenge for many researchers and practitioners relates to how to recognize and address cross-scale dynamics in space and over time in order to design and implement effective governance arrangements. This editorial provides an overview of the concept of multi-level governance (MLG). In particular we highlight definitional issues, why the concept matters as well as more practical concerns related to the processes and structure of multi-level governance. It is increasingly clear that multi-level governance of forest resources involves complex interactions of state, private and civil society actors at various levels, and institutions linking higher levels of social and political organization. Local communities are increasingly connected to global networks and influences. This creates new opportunities to learn and address problems but may also introduce new pressures and risks. We conclude by stressing the need for a much complex approach to the varieties of MLG to better understand how policies work as instruments of governance and to organize communities within systems of power and authority.

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Section: Approaches To Integrating Cross-scale or Cross-level Coordinmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multi-level governance of forest resources (Editorial to the special feature)

Mwangi¹,

Wardell

2012

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“…Th ird, while most of the classical literature supports the popular thesis that legal pluralism is characterized by competition between and among the multiple fora for power and authority (Berry 2002;Unruh 2003;Tamanaha 2008;Sikor and Lund 2009;Mwangi 2010;Van Leeuwen 2014, our case and our understanding of the situation in northern Uganda points towards cooperation rather than competition. Th e competition described by scholars ranges from what norms, rules and procedures should apply in confl ict resolution, to which organizations/institutions should be authorized to take charge under what particular circumstances (Van Leeuwen 2014).…”

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THIS LAND IS NOT FOR SALE: Trust and Transitions in Northern Uganda

2023

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Although violent conflict has declined in northern Uganda, tensions and mistrust concerning land have increased. Residents try to deal with acquisitions by investors and exclusions from forests and wildlife reserves. Land wrangles among neighbours and relatives are widespread. The growing commodification of land challenges ideals of entrustment for future generations. Using extended case studies, collaborating researchers analyze the principles and practices that shape access to land. Contributors examine the multiplicity of land claims, the nature of transactions and the management of conflicts. They show how access to land is governed through intimate relations of gender, generation and belonging.

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“…Other studies looking at the social implications of land fragmentation, especially studies focusing on Maasai land subdivision, have highlighted how enclosure can cause significant conflict and social tension (Galaty 2005(Galaty , 2013Mwangi 2007bMwangi , 2010. Among the Maasai, the process of land subdivision itself has been rife with tension around decision-making, membership registration, land surveying, parcel allocations, and titling procedures.…”

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Re-creating the commons and re-configuring Maasai women’s roles on the rangelands in the face of fragmentation

Archambault

2016

Int J Commons

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Throughout the world pastoralists today face a particularly daunting challenge of intensified rangeland fragmentation combined with human population growth and climate change. In many pastoral settings, rangelands are undergoing processes of fragmentation due to tenure transformations, as previously communal lands are privatized into individual holdings. Such processes of enclosure have raised concerns over the long-term costs on pastoral communities and on rangeland eco-systems. This paper explores pastoral responses and adaptations to enclosure based on long-term ethnographic engagement in a Maasai community in Southern Kenya that has recently privatized. Detailed family case studies and herd tracking illuminate the ways in which families try to re-create the commons by relying on social networks for free access to resources. In particular, women's social networks (for example, their kin, affines, friends, or religious associates) seem to play an important role. This paper calls attention to the need to better understand women's changing roles in pastoral governance and production and the implications these new roles have for women's well-being and for pastoralism in the face of fragmentation.

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Bumbling Bureaucrats, Sluggish Courts and Forum-Shopping Elites: Unending Conflict and Competition in the Transition to Private Property

Cited by 6 publications

References 42 publications

Multi-level governance of forest resources (Editorial to the special feature)

Multi-level governance of forest resources (Editorial to the special feature)

THIS LAND IS NOT FOR SALE: Trust and Transitions in Northern Uganda

Re-creating the commons and re-configuring Maasai women’s roles on the rangelands in the face of fragmentation

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