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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Gonçalves, Euclides |
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Conference:
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Survival of the Commons: Mounting Challenges and New Realities, the Eleventh Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property |
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Location:
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Bali, Indonesia |
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Conf. Date:
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June 19-23, 2006 |
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Date:
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2006 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1688
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Sector:
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Land Tenure & Use |
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Region:
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Africa |
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Subject(s):
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IASC
state and local governance
land tenure and use
decentralization
democratization
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Abstract:
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"The institutionalisation and recognition of community leaders in Mozambique as part of the decentralization program has been locally perceived as the latest on a series of externally driven government interventions. This paper explores the effects of the introduction and formal recognition of elected community leaders on land management. In the light of the on going democratic decentralization reform the paper analyses ethnographic based cases of land disputes in Inharrime district. Especial attention is given to the implications of governments' formal recognition of locally elected community leaders for land management.
"I argue that the introduction of community leaders has further complicated complex local public domain formed as a result of the marriage and interdependence between local forms of land management and those inherited from colonial and socialist periods. The result is a proliferation of different and, sometimes, competing land management forums in the public domain. In this context, people resort to different locally accountable forums according with the nature of specific cases ensuing processual and fluid democratic practices."
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