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Promoting land tenure security for sustainable peace — lessons on the politics of transformation

Mathijs van Leeuwen, An Ansoms, Emery Mushagalusa Mudinga, Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka, Rene-Claude Niyonkuru, Jonathan Shaw, Gemma van der Haar, Promoting land tenure security for sustainable peace — lessons on the politics of transformation, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Volume 49, 2021, Pages 57-65.

Abstract: 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.

Read the full open access paper here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2021.02.012.

Find out more about SecTenSusPeace: Localizing land-registration in conflict-affected areas
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