Colonial legacy, private property, and rural development: Evidence from Namibian countryside

Chlouba, Vladimir; He, Jianzi

doi:10.1080/20780389.2020.1858049

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“…Historically, pandemics have redrawn tenure boundaries; a classical case being the red line drawn by German colonizers in Namibia to control rinderpest pandemic in 1896 i , which divides the freehold and communal tenure (Chlouba and He, 2019). Outbreak of the second plague pandemic in Europe, the Black Death, had dramatic effects on transforming and "rewilding" the landscape of the countryside ii (Ersgård, 2016).…”

Section: Land Use Change and Pandemics: The Linkagesmentioning

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COVID-19 Crisis, Pandemic Resilience and Linkages to Land: An Exposition

Choudhury¹,

Ghosh

Sindhi³

2020

SSRN Journal

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For a COVID-19 like pandemic, the Achilles heel is an unsuspecting villain -rapid and global land use changes. The way governments, businesses and communities see, relate to and use land, not only influences the outbreak but also determines their impact on humanity and development. Drawing upon empirical evidences from epidemiology and land governance, this article argues why the current situation implores the need to focus on the interaction between land use and global diseases. Apart from dwelling on causal links, we discuss the externalities that industrial, urban and rural development in India are poised to face because of the pandemic's potential impact on land, biodiversity and wildlife habitat, property rights and housing. We also underline reform options for policy and practice, that must be discussed and acted upon.

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Section: Land Use Change and Pandemics: The Linkagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

COVID-19 Crisis, Pandemic Resilience and Linkages to Land: An Exposition

Choudhury¹,

Ghosh

Sindhi³

2020

SSRN Journal

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Chiefs and Pre-Election Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Precolonial Legacy of Centralized States

Chen

2024

International Interactions

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Planetary rural geographies

Wang

Maye

Woods

2023

Dialogues in Human Geography

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This paper proposes planetary rural geographies to counter the narrative of planetary urbanisation, which has contended that the whole planet has been urbanised and can be understood through urban theory without an outside. Whilst critics have challenged the metrophilia inherent to planetary urbanisation, advanced post-colonial critiques, and posited alternative models of ruralisation, we argue that these responses fall short of fully embracing the radical potential of a planetary perspective. We call for planetary rural geographies that examine rural places as sites of interaction between diverse more-than-human relations that extend above and below the Earth surface and contend that the configuration of human–environment interactions at the ‘rural’ end of urban–rural relations is critical to addressing planetary crises. We elaborate this argument by focusing on three geographies of planetary rurality: as a space of crisis, as a space of conflict, and as a space of hope, evidenced by examples drawn from the global rural literature.

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Colonial legacy, private property, and rural development: Evidence from Namibian countryside

Cited by 3 publications

References 54 publications

COVID-19 Crisis, Pandemic Resilience and Linkages to Land: An Exposition

COVID-19 Crisis, Pandemic Resilience and Linkages to Land: An Exposition

Chiefs and Pre-Election Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Precolonial Legacy of Centralized States

Planetary rural geographies

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