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Local community, legitimacy and culture authenticity in post-conflict natural resource management: Ethiopia and Mozambique
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posted on 2023-06-07, 17:23 authored by Richard Black, Elizabeth WatsonIn this paper we explore the way in which `local community¿ has been conceptualised in initiatives to promote natural resource management (NRM) in postconflict Ethiopia and Mozambique in the late 1990s. Both countries have seen a shift towards policy discourses that stress `participatory¿ approaches to NRM, and a search for legitimate and authentic cultural institutions at a local level that can act as a vehicle for implementation of this new policy approach. Yet, engagement with a range of local institutions has often conflated terms such as `indigenous¿ and `traditional¿ with `local¿, `community¿, and `communal¿, missing contestation over their social and cultural authenticity and making mistaken assumptions about the rootedness of institutions in geographical space. Examples of forest management initiatives in Manica Province, Mozambique, and land and water management in Borana, southern Ethiopia, are contrasted to consider the differences and similarities in the nature and outcomes of such external interventions
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Environment and Planning D: Society and SpaceISSN
0263-7758External DOI
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2Volume
24Page range
263-282Pages
20.0Department affiliated with
- Geography Publications
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Joint and equal contribution with other author; paper derives from major DFID-funded project involving collaboration with the Dept. of Anthropology; Black PI.Full text available
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2012-02-06Usage metrics
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