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1 Jones, H.; Jones, N.; Shaxson, L.; Walker, D. 2012. Knowledge, policy and power in international development: a practical guide. Bristol, UK: Policy Press. 223p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 338.926 G000 JON Record No: H046049)
2 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.
3 Suhardiman, Diana; Manorom, K.; Rigg, J. 2022. Institutional bricolage (re)shaping the different manifestations of state-citizens relations in Mekong hydropower planning. Geoforum, 134:118-130. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.07.001]
Hydropower ; Planning ; Decision making ; Institutional development ; Local communities ; Civil society organizations ; Collective action ; Strategies ; Transboundary waters ; Water governance ; Political power ; Villages ; Households ; Livelihoods ; Compensation ; Negotiation ; Social aspects ; Development projects ; Dams ; Case studies / Thailand / Lao People's Democratic Republic / Mekong River / Pak Beng Hydropower Dam / Khamkong / Thongngam / Viang Somboon / Ing Doi / Huai Sung
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Concerns over hydropower development in the Mekong River Basin and elsewhere include not only the overall impacts of dams on basin ecology and economy but also more site-specific impacts on affected communities. While hydropower development is impacting the livelihoods of local communities living along the river, the latter’s views and concerns are often sidelined by top-down hydropower planning. Nonetheless, local communities create and shape their political spaces of engagements in relation to hydropower decision making across scales, albeit through various means and with different results. Taking the planned Pak Beng hydropower dam as a case study and building on the concept of institutional bricolage, we look at: 1) local communities’ responses in Thailand and Laos, including how these are influenced by social movements; 2) how these responses are translated into collective action (or the lack thereof), including in relation to local communities’ (in)ability to negotiate better compensation for their to be impacted livelihoods; and 3) how local communities strategies are embedded in the wider political context and different manifestations of state-citizens relations. We argue that while affected farm households can pursue their interests to secure proper compensation through individual means, this leads to sub-optimal outcomes for affected communities collectively.
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