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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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German, Laura A.; Braga, Carla |
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Conference:
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In Defense of the Commons: Challenges, Innovation and Action, the Seventeenth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons |
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Location:
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Lima, Peru |
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Conf. Date:
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July 1-5 |
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Date:
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2019 |
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/10622
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Sector:
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Global Commons |
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Abstract:
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"Land governance has taken center stage in global development discourse and practice, with
widespread support from international financial institutions, governments, the private sector
and civil society. 'Respect for land rights', 'women’s land rights' and 'tenure security' have
emerged as central concepts, with tenure formalization and detailed procedural guidelines for
community consultation emerging as the key instruments through which these aims are
advanced. A long history of scholarship questioning the benefits of titling and consultation and
highlighting associated risks for customary rights holders seems to have been buried under the
enthusiasm of this new global consensus. This paper aims to explain this paradox by exploring
the inner workings of an emergent global knowledge regime in which the socially progressive
language of respect for local land rights is deployed to advance instrumentalities which are
equally likely to pry open as to safeguard communal land in the face of outside interests."
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