Repertoires of Domination: Decentralization as Process in Botswana and Senegal

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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Poteete, Amy; Ribot, Jesse C.
Conference:	Sustaining Commons: Sustaining Our Future, the Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons
Location:	Hyderabad, India
Conf. Date:	January 10-14
Date:	2011
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/7188
Sector:	General & Multiple Resources Social Organization
Region:	Africa
Subject(s):	decentralization democratization natural resources resource management
Abstract:	"Decentralization promises to empower local actors, but threatens others with a loss of power. We describe 'repertoires of domination' as the set of acts actors perform to defend--or entrench and expand--their positions. We illustrate how repertoires of domination prevent local-level democratization through the decentralization of natural resource management in Botswana and Senegal. The concept of repertoire brings attention to the availability of multiple, substitutable acts of domination that draw upon varied sources of power. Neither decentralization nor democratization can be achieved once and for all. These processes are both advanced and halted through acts of contestation."

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