Mining on communal land as a new frontier –a case study of the Kunene Region, Namibia

Odendaal, Willem; Hebinck, Paul

doi:10.1080/1747423x.2019.1671524

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“…Finally, the existing huge implementation gap between written law and local practices is being addressed for cases studies in Brazil and Namibia (Klingler and Mack, 2020;Schönenberg, 2020;Odendaal and Hebinck, 2019). This group of articles analyses the drama taking place at most postfrontiers of the Global South, namely the badly regulated transition from customary law and informality to formality, shaped by inadequate and locally incomprehensible laws and regulations and often leading to the criminalization of whole life worlds.…”

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Transdisciplinary perspectives on current transformations at extractive and agrarian, frontiers in Latin America

Vega-Leinert¹,

Schönenberg²

2020

Journal of Land Use Science

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Goals and scope of the special issueLand use is at the centre of political and ethical dispute all over the world. How these disputes are conducted depends, to a certain extent, on scientific policy advice. Knowledge related to land rights, food sovereignty, environmental governance, societal and cultural values, and social and human behaviour, among others, represent the frame conditions, well analysed data the content for a qualified debate. Accordingly, cross-fertilization between social and natural sciences and with local stakeholders is critical to produce the knowledge needed to spur transformation (Jahn et al., 2012). In this special issue we aim at:• encouraging transdisciplinary co-production of knowledge on land use in sustainability research • generating original theoretical and methodological insights on the rapid and profound societal and environmental processes currently taking place at Latin American frontiers, and beyond • contributing to an inventive research agenda for transformative research on land use at extractive and agrarian frontiers.Two assumptions guide our reflection:• True transdisciplinarity implies trusting that each source of knowledge involved has a significant role to play in generating the collective insights needed to construct sustainable futures.• We need innovative arenas, where scientific/lay, Western/non-Western, quantitative/qualitative approaches fruitfully interact, to produce hybrid, socially, politically and ecologically conscious research results.With our Special Issue we, therefore, want to foster integrative approaches from a broad spectrum of social science perspectives, ranging from critical geography, agrarian/gender/cultural studies, political sciences, sociology to anthropology and history. We wish to incorporate qualitative, empirical and exploratory methods, which address the societal root causes, processes and implications of land use change. Indeed, they are invaluable in performing actor-, network-, and policy analyses, and providing critical insights into the motivations, perceptions, preferences, and decision-making of societal actors in relation to nature, ecosystem services and land use/land cover (LULC) changes.

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Transdisciplinary perspectives on current transformations at extractive and agrarian, frontiers in Latin America

Vega-Leinert¹,

Schönenberg²

2020

Journal of Land Use Science

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“…In 2015, after years of preparation initiated by Haiǁom still living in Etosha, a large group of Haiǁom from various areas, being dissatisfied with the government's resettlement approach, launched a legal claim to parts of their ancestral land – mainly the Etosha National Park (Dieckmann 2020; Koot & Hitchcock 2019; Odendaal, Gilbert & Vermeylen 2020).…”

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Thinking with relations in nature conservation? A case study of the Etosha National Park and Haiǁom

Dieckmann

2023

Royal Anthropological Inst

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The area of the Etosha National Park in Namibia has been inhabited for many centuries by Haiǁom, a group of (now former) hunter‐gatherers. In 1907, Etosha was proclaimed as a game reserve, although Haiǁom were still allowed to live in the area until they were expelled in the 1950s due to then‐dominant ideas of fortress conservation. In recent years, Haiǁom have been provided with several resettlement farms by the Namibian government as a reaction to the colonial land dispossession. In this article, I explore the onto‐epistemology of Haiǁom (i.e. their being in and knowing the Etosha area), focusing on their relations with the land and with human and beyond‐the‐human beings before their eviction. I argue that the eviction implies not only economic marginalization but also social deprivation, which is inadequately addressed with resettlement. I suggest that thinking with relations, illustrated with the Haiǁom case, would call for other solutions in the context of measures taken for past land dispossessions and would open new paths for Namibia's nature conservation initiatives.

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Navigating capitalist expansion and climate change in pastoral social-ecological systems: impacts, vulnerability and decision-making

Postigo

2021

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

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Mining on communal land as a new frontier –a case study of the Kunene Region, Namibia

Cited by 3 publications

References 41 publications

Transdisciplinary perspectives on current transformations at extractive and agrarian, frontiers in Latin America

Transdisciplinary perspectives on current transformations at extractive and agrarian, frontiers in Latin America

Thinking with relations in nature conservation? A case study of the Etosha National Park and Haiǁom

Navigating capitalist expansion and climate change in pastoral social-ecological systems: impacts, vulnerability and decision-making

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