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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Taylor, Jim |
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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/10535/1815
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Sector:
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Grazing |
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Region:
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East Asia |
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Subject(s):
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IASC
grasslands
pastoralism
privatization
enclosure
economic development
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Abstract:
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"This paper argues that the recent policy trend toward grassland 'privatisation' and the household enclosure movement are generating conditions for greater inequalities and the decline of natural resources. Evidence is supported among recent comparative studies undertaken elsewhere in Inner Mongolia. The trend towards separate enclosures incorporates the normalising and generalising discourse of 'grassland science' (using the concepts of carrying capacity and succession theory), modernity and development towards minorities who possess their own cultural constructions on environment, identity and ethno-ecological knowledge, though subject to immense external pressure since the collectivisation and post-collectivisation periods.
"In the context of modernity's planned development project, a much more critical position is required in order to understand the impact of enclosures in non-equilibrium contexts and its effects on peoples' lives. This is especially in relation to differentiations generated by the normalising power of microeconomic policy and the complexity of the relationship between enclosures, cultural practices, and grazing pressure intensification."
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