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Village properties, state negotiations: Decentralization and territorialization of Senegal's forests

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dc.contributor.authorRobinson, Ewan Scott
dc.contributor.chairWolford, Wendy W.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberLeonard, Lori
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-23T13:22:28Z
dc.date.available2018-10-23T13:22:28Z
dc.date.issued2018-05-30
dc.description.abstractIn the last two decades, legal reforms and development projects in Senegal have purported to transfer authority over thousands of hectares of forests, pastures, and fisheries from state agencies to local elected councils, customary chiefs, and user committees. Yet in addition to transferring official powers, these efforts have introduced new spatial categories and legal techniques such as local conventions and village protected sites. These tools alter the terrain on which state agencies, politicians, commercial interests, and customary leaders – not to mention the numerous groups whose livelihoods depend on these resources – seek to access and control natural resources. By tracing the evolution of one of Senegal’s first community forestry initiatives over a 17-year history, this article argues that decentralization has fixed forests in place and privatized common-property, while also disrupting the presumption of separate domains of “state” and “community”. Rather than creating territories governed by communities, the creation of village forests drew together customary authorities, local politicians, and forestry technicians in relations of mutual dependence and informal collaboration. One effect of decentralization has been the incorporation of new resources and property relations into networks of informalized and privatized state power.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7298/X4TM78BC
dc.identifier.otherRobinson_cornell_0058O_10292
dc.identifier.otherhttp://dissertations.umi.com/cornell:10292
dc.identifier.otherbibid: 10489477
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/59392
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subjectland politics
dc.subjectterritorialization
dc.subjectDecentralization
dc.subjectState Formation
dc.subjectSociology
dc.subjectGeography
dc.subjectcommunity-based natural resource management
dc.subjectcommunity forestry
dc.titleVillage properties, state negotiations: Decentralization and territorialization of Senegal's forests
dc.typedissertation or thesis
dcterms.licensehttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/59810
thesis.degree.disciplineDevelopment Sociology
thesis.degree.grantorCornell University
thesis.degree.levelMaster of Science
thesis.degree.nameM.S., Development Sociology

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