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1 Suhardiman, Diana; Bright, J.; Palmano, C. 2021. The politics of legal pluralism in the shaping of spatial power in Myanmar’s land governance. Journal of Peasant Studies, 48(2):411-435. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2019.1656200]
Land governance ; Legal pluralism ; Political power ; Land use ; Land rights ; Land policies ; Central government ; Political institutions ; Legal frameworks ; Farmers ; Land tenure ; Customary tenure ; Land titling ; Strategies ; Villages ; Local communities ; Case studies / Myanmar / Karen State / Mukaplow / Maepoe Noh
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049411)
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Following the National League for Democracy’s landslide victory in the 2015 national election, Myanmar embarked on a series of legal and political transitions. This paper highlights parallel processes alongside such transitions. Linking land governance with the ongoing peace processes, and taking Karen state as a case study, it brings to light how both processes are in fact closely interlinked. Building on legal pluralism research, we argue that in the context of ethnic states, farmers’ strategies to strengthen their land rights resemble the very notion of state transformation.
2 Kenney-Lazar, M.; Suhardiman, Diana; Hunt, G. 2023. The spatial politics of land policy reform in Myanmar and Laos. Journal of Peasant Studies, 50(4):1529-1548. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2022.2054700]
Land policies ; Land reform ; Land law ; Political parties ; Land titling ; Land tenure ; Land use ; Customary land rights ; Government ; Non-governmental organizations ; Donors ; Civil society ; Farmers ; Social aspects / Myanmar / Lao People's Democratic Republic
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051094)
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Land policy reform has dominated the development agenda across the Global South over the past two decades. In contrast with earlier distributive land reforms, contemporary policies reflect an amalgamation of neoliberal, state territorial, and social justice agendas. This paper demonstrates how land policy changes reflect the spatially extensive and multi-scalar politics of land contestation and control, employing the cases of Myanmar and Laos. Myanmar’s short-lived democratic transition enabled civil society actors to exert uneven influence on policy reform. In contrast, communist party and state dominance in Laos has constrained, although not wholly obstructed, policy intervention by non-governmental groups.
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