TY - JOUR
T1 - Promoting land tenure security for sustainable peace — lessons on the politics of transformation
AU - van Leeuwen, Mathijs
AU - Ansoms, An
AU - Mushagalusa Mudinga, Emery
AU - Nyenyezi Bisoka, Aymar
AU - Niyonkuru, Rene Claude
AU - Shaw, Jonathan
AU - van der Haar, Gemma
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Literature on transformations to sustainability increasingly recognizes transformation as inherently political, but the field still struggles to study these politics. Our research project ‘Securing Tenure, Sustainable Peace?’ on efforts to localize land registration in conflict-affected settings, both illustrates and contributes to understanding the politics of transformation. Building on insights from political ecology/economy, legal and political anthropology, and the anthropology of conflict, we analyse the politics involved in (1) the overarching policy discourses that legitimize these interventions; (2) the competition around these programmes; and (3) the outcomes, or the risks and contradictory effects of these programmes. We present insights that we consider relevant to develop better conceptualizations of the politics of transformations in sustainability studies more broadly. In particular, we draw attention to the tendency of de-politicization, which involves the hiding in technical formats of what are in essence political choices; as well as the need to give attention to institutional competition and to risks involved and unexpected outcomes of transformation.
AB - Literature on transformations to sustainability increasingly recognizes transformation as inherently political, but the field still struggles to study these politics. Our research project ‘Securing Tenure, Sustainable Peace?’ on efforts to localize land registration in conflict-affected settings, both illustrates and contributes to understanding the politics of transformation. Building on insights from political ecology/economy, legal and political anthropology, and the anthropology of conflict, we analyse the politics involved in (1) the overarching policy discourses that legitimize these interventions; (2) the competition around these programmes; and (3) the outcomes, or the risks and contradictory effects of these programmes. We present insights that we consider relevant to develop better conceptualizations of the politics of transformations in sustainability studies more broadly. In particular, we draw attention to the tendency of de-politicization, which involves the hiding in technical formats of what are in essence political choices; as well as the need to give attention to institutional competition and to risks involved and unexpected outcomes of transformation.
U2 - 10.1016/j.cosust.2021.02.012
DO - 10.1016/j.cosust.2021.02.012
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85103427013
SN - 1877-3435
VL - 49
SP - 57
EP - 65
JO - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
JF - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
ER -