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      <title>All-terrain experts: Land surveyors, remote mapping and land alienation in Mendoza, Argentina</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/199103</link>
      <description>Title: All-terrain experts: Land surveyors, remote mapping and land alienation in Mendoza, Argentina
Authors: Martín, Facundo
Abstract: There has been recent growing interest in the role of expert knowledge around land politics. One area that has often been overlooked is how land-related expert knowledge has fostered the transformation of the regime of land control, access and ownership. This paper aims to capture the distinctiveness of contemporary mapping politics in relation to the commodification of land by corporate and state actors. I analyse how remote mapping practices influence the transformation of land regimes. The main research question is how and to what extent land surveyors and their cadastral mapping practices facilitate and legitimate market-led land commodification, and at the same time contribute to de jure and de facto peasant land alienation.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Women in land struggles: The implications of female activism and emotional resistance for gender equity</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/199102</link>
      <description>Title: Women in land struggles: The implications of female activism and emotional resistance for gender equity
Authors: Hennings, Anne
Abstract: Despite deeply engrained images of female domesticity and conventional gender norms, women are increasingly joining land struggles in Cambodia. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, my findings suggest that land rights activism in Cambodia has undergone a gendered re-framing process. Reasoning that women tend to use non-violent means of contestation and are less prone to violent responses from security personnel, nongovernmental organizations push women affected by land grabs and eviction to the frontline of protests. Moreover, female activists are encouraged to publicly display emotions such as sorrow and pain, in sharp contrast with the notion of feminine modesty. I critically question the women-to-the-front strategy and, drawing on Sara Ahmed's politics of emotions, show the adverse risks for female activists. Following that, I argue that the instrumentalization of female bodies and emotions in land rights protests perpetuates gender disparities instead of strengthening female agency in Cambodian society or opening up political space for women.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Subsoil mediations: Strategies of contention at the grassroots and the extraction of subsoil resources</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/209675</link>
      <description>Title: Subsoil mediations: Strategies of contention at the grassroots and the extraction of subsoil resources
Authors: Dueholm Rasch, Elisabet
Abstract: In this working paper, I argue that the ways in which communities engage in strategies of contention are mediated by what I call 'subsoil imaginaries': how peoples and communities imagine and give meaning to the subsoil and its extraction. In so doing, I approach the subsoil as a site on and through which strategies of contention gain form and content, and at the same time as a resource that is produced through such (political) discursive and practical activities. It is on this site that this paper explores strategies of contention as a negotiation of rights between political subjects and the state that is mediated by subsoil imaginaries. Strategies of contention are mediated by subsoil imaginations in two dimensions. First, conflicts and contestations over resource use are often rooted in different ideas and imaginaries of resource use and the subsoil. Natural resources can be valued as indigenous territory, as a part of livelihood, in terms of biodiversity, and as combinations thereof. Such meanings clash with the monetary valuations on which most extractive projects are based. Second, extractive projects cause conflicts over distribution, as well as over recognition and participation; it is not only about the environmental consequences of subsoil extraction but also (if not foremost) about power, democracy and citizenship. These claims of social justice, as I will show, are also shaped by imaginaries of the subsoil. The paper builds on research on resistance, citizenship and subsoil extraction since 2010 in Latin America, the Philippines and the Netherlands.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Who owns the land? Social relations and conflict over resources in Africa</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/199100</link>
      <description>Title: Who owns the land? Social relations and conflict over resources in Africa
Authors: Berry, Sara S.
Abstract: Using case studies drawn from the authors' own and others' research, this working paper describes and compares some of the ways land conflicts reflected, intensified or reshaped struggles over authority within and between families, local communities, institutions and states in post-colonial Africa. In the past, many Africans gained access to land through membership in a social group, rather than freehold ownership. In recent decades, with rising demand for land, urgent questions arose about land tenure and debates over land transactions often turned on issues of authority. Who was entitled to sell, lease, mortgage or bequeath land or land use rights to others, and who could decide? Coinciding with Africans' struggles to work out the conditions of their own self-government following the end of colonial rule, rising competition over land intersected with conflicts over authority and obligation at all levels of social interaction. This essay will focus on processes of 'privatisation from below', asking how smaller-scale commercial acquisitions figure as sources of wealth and/or threats to livelihood in different economic and political contexts</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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