Justice for the Poor? An Exploratory Study of Collective Grievances Over Land and Local Governance in Cambodia

Adler, Daniel; Chhim, Kristina; Heang, Path; Hak, Sochanny; Sou, Ketya; Heng, Kimvan

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“…For many, the reality is that when formal recognition exists as the dominant system, for those without these formalised and recognised connections to the land they inhabit, their rights or entitlements might be rendered meaningless. In a country‐specific setting within Cambodia, for example, there is a formal recognition of ‘human rights’ per se (Constitution Preamble), and the Land Law 2001 also guarantees the ‘rights of ownership’ (Article 1), yet landlessness continues and justice for the property‐less is yet to be universally achieved (Adler et al ., 2006a; 2006b).…”

Section: Core Legal Geography Concerns: Tenure Exclusion and Rightsmentioning

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A legal geography of property, tenure, exclusion, and rights in Cambodia: exposing an incongruous property narrative for non‐Western settings

Gillespie

2014

Geographical Research

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The scholarship of legal geography provides an alternative way of conceptualising human-environmental relationships. While laws determine access to and regulate use of land through practices of bounding and excluding, geographical studies provide insights into the way that both physical and social processes create places. The meeting of these perspectives is invaluable. Legal geography perspectives are coming of age in an era when transdisciplinary perspectives on human/ nonhuman-landscape interactions are of core concern to wider land use policy considerations. This paper draws on legal geography scholarship about property framed around three key concepts (1) tenure security, (2) exclusion, and (3) rights to reveal the social complexity surrounding these issues. This complexity is magnified in non-Western settings, and in this paper, the legal geography perspective of analysis is extended to a developing country context. Using Cambodia as the primary setting, this paper challenges the unquestioning exportation of a dominant 'Western' property model into non-Western contexts.

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Section: Core Legal Geography Concerns: Tenure Exclusion and Rightsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A legal geography of property, tenure, exclusion, and rights in Cambodia: exposing an incongruous property narrative for non‐Western settings

Gillespie

2014

Geographical Research

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“…So far, none of the scholarly work has documented why and how some of these movements have succeeded while others have failed in this neo-patrimonial regime. A study of small-scale land disputes suggests that political mobilisation is a necessary precursor to the success of these collective groups, which have to be very well organised and able to persuade highlevel decision-makers (Adler et al 2006). Apart from its limited theoretical development, the latter study suggests that use of tactics, such as seeking support from high-ranking officials within the government administration, is important to ensure success.…”

Section: Cambodia As a Neo-patrimonial Regimementioning

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Social movements in Cambodia: why they succeed or fail

Young

2019

J Int Relat Dev

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In social movements and contentious politics, the factors determining success or failure of a movement remain contested since different scholars tend to argue differently. As a contribution to this debate, this paper draws on two cases representing the relative success and failure of movements targeting the government of Cambodia and foreign joint venture investments to address the communities' grievances. The paper reveals that, while other factors such as strategies, resource mobilisation, networks and corporate behaviour remain necessary to the debate, the variation in outcome is essentially determined by the patron-client network, a political dynamic employed by the neo-patrimonial rulers to cling onto power.

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Civil Society Organisations Versus the Ruler: A Zero-Sum Game?

Young

2021

Strategies of Authoritarian Survival and Dissensus in Southeast Asia

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Justice for the Poor? An Exploratory Study of Collective Grievances Over Land and Local Governance in Cambodia

Cited by 5 publications

References 1 publication

A legal geography of property, tenure, exclusion, and rights in Cambodia: exposing an incongruous property narrative for non‐Western settings

A legal geography of property, tenure, exclusion, and rights in Cambodia: exposing an incongruous property narrative for non‐Western settings

Social movements in Cambodia: why they succeed or fail

Civil Society Organisations Versus the Ruler: A Zero-Sum Game?

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