Green Grab by Bricolage – The Institutional Workings of Community Conservancies in Kenya

Bersaglio, Brock; Cleaver, Frances

doi:10.4103/cs.cs_16_144

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“…A precise documentation of everyday practices-which in water includes the practices of providing water services, of designing, operating and maintaining water systems, of protecting water sources and flows, of sharing water or water services, et cetera-creates room for acknowledging the messiness, creativity and contingencies in water governance processes, while also allowing a better appreciation of how water decisions and actions may be as much the outcome of pragmatic or tactical choices, as of strategic, power-laden ones. Scholars have proposed words like bricolage, braconage and tinkering to capture what happens between policy or design intentions and everyday realities [22,[31][32][33][34][35][36]. A practice-based approach to water governance generates interesting challenges to existing conceptualizations of water authority and power by re-defining what counts as water knowledge, or in expanding who counts as knowledgeable about water: from only or mainly scientists and engineers to irrigators (and those they rely on for repairs and technical help) and local water user organizations [19,20].…”

Section: Theoretical and Methodological Considerationsmentioning

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Attention to Sociotechnical Tinkering with Irrigation Infrastructure as a Way to Rethink Water Governance

Kemerink-Seyoum

Chitata

Guzmán

et al. 2019

Water

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Inspired by the proposal of political scientists and anthropologists to focus on “practice” as the smallest unit of analysis for understanding politics, as well as the renewed scholarly attention to materiality, this paper sets out to show that detailed ethnographic attention to processes and acts of sociotechnical tinkering provides a useful entry-point for understanding water governance. This is so methodologically, because infrastructural forms of tinkering are very visible, and therefore researchable, manifestations of agency and change in water governance. Attention to sociotechnical tinkering helps shift the basis for understanding water realities from official norms, designs and laws to everyday practices. This in turn allows questioning, rather than assuming, how expertise and agency are exercised and distributed in water governance, thereby also providing useful information for re-thinking water politics. In addition, by explicitly engaging with the contingency and capriciousness of actual water flows, a sociotechnical tinkering approach entails a much-needed re-appreciation of the materiality of water, infrastructure and other matter, a re-appreciation that extends to those who design, construct, operate and use water infrastructure.

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Section: Theoretical and Methodological Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Attention to Sociotechnical Tinkering with Irrigation Infrastructure as a Way to Rethink Water Governance

Kemerink-Seyoum

Chitata

Guzmán

et al. 2019

Water

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“…2001). These observations have occurred around the globe and on the heels of 24 years of community‐based conservation practices challenging the notion that local human livelihoods have been uplifted via these approaches (Nelson & Agrawal 2008; Bersaglio & Cleaver 2018; Taruvinga 2019).…”

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“…Frustration over limited or no benefits from ecotourism is a common complaint of local communities across the Global South (Salafsky et al 2001). These observations have occurred around the globe and on the heels of 24 years of communitybased conservation practices challenging the notion that local human livelihoods have been uplifted via these approaches (Nelson & Agrawal 2008;Bersaglio & Cleaver 2018;Taruvinga 2019).…”

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Positioning human heritage at the center of conservation practice

Montgomery

Borona

Kasozi

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Conservation Biology

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Conservation projects subscribing to a community-based paradigm have predominated in the 21st century. We examined the context in which the phrase was coined and traced its growth over time. Communitybased conservation first appeared in the literature in the early 1990s; but grew little until after the 5th World Parks Congress in 2003. Thereafter, publications describing community-based conservation approaches increased exponentially. The conference theme was Benefits Beyond Boundaries, and its goal was to provide an economic model based on revenue accrued from conservation fundraising and ecotourism to support ecosystems, wildlife, and people, particularly in the Global South. Such models tended not to incorporate, as a core principle, the heritage of local human communities. Human heritage varies substantially over time and space making generalization of conservation principles across scales challenging. Pitfalls that have grown out of the community-based conservation approaches in the Global South include fortress conservation, conservation militarism, consumptive and nonconsumptive ecotourism, and whiz-bang solutions. We propose 10 tenets in a human heritage-centered conservation framework (e.g., engage in conservation practices using local languages, thoughtfully propose and apply solutions consistent with human heritage, provide clear professional development pathways for individuals from local communities, and promote alternative revenue-generating programs centered in local communities, among others). Progressive philosophies can derive from authentic and ethical integration of local communities in conservation practice.

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“…Meaningful change will require a break from long-standing and entrenched national development trajectories. Moreover, policies and institutions deployed ostensibly to enhance SAL resilience have frequently had unanticipated consequences: community-based adaptation and development strategies have often been deployed in ways that reinforce local power structures, with opportunities for capture of processes by local elites, government officials and private players (Bersaglio & Cleaver, 2018; Cleaver, 2012; Cleaver & Hamada, 2010; Galvin et al , 2018; Leach et al , 1999). Decentralization often leads to recentralized control and has rarely been accompanied by transfer of sufficient funds to enable local government to fulfil their mandates (Hesse et al , 2013; Ribot, 2011; Scoones & Wolmer, 2003).…”

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Private adaptation in semi-arid lands: a tailored approach to ‘leave no one behind’

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Non-technical abstract Globally, semi-arid lands (SALs) are home to approximately one billion people, including some of the poorest and least food secure. These regions will be among the hardest hit by the impacts of climate change. This article urges governments and their development partners to put SAL inhabitants and their activities at the heart of efforts to support adaptation and climate resilient development, identifying opportunities to capitalize on the knowledge, institutions, resources and practices of SAL populations in adaptation action.

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Green Grab by Bricolage – The Institutional Workings of Community Conservancies in Kenya

Cited by 23 publications

References 38 publications

Attention to Sociotechnical Tinkering with Irrigation Infrastructure as a Way to Rethink Water Governance

Attention to Sociotechnical Tinkering with Irrigation Infrastructure as a Way to Rethink Water Governance

Positioning human heritage at the center of conservation practice

Private adaptation in semi-arid lands: a tailored approach to ‘leave no one behind’

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