Navigating Contested Winds: Development Visions and Anti-Politics of Wind Energy in Northern Kenya

Gargule, Achiba

doi:10.3390/land8010007

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“…People have grown up with the identity of being cattle raisers, and the notion that owning a thriving cattle herd is an embodiment of well‐being. This attachment was commonly expressed as a reason for resisting livestock change, but it has also been linked more generally to negative portrayals of pastoralism in public and policy discourse (Achiba, 2019; Greiner, 2016) that view persistent adherence to such traditions as out of step with a modern view of Kenya.…”

Section: Pastoralist Values and Livestock Transitions In Kenyamentioning

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Culture as a mediator of climate change adaptation: Neither static nor unidirectional

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Spear

Singh³

et al. 2020

WIREs Climate Change

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Though there is increasing recognition of the cultural dimensions that shape climate change adaptation, our experience from working with actors engaged in adaptation policy and practice suggests that the role of culture still tends to be conceived in overly narrow and fixed terms. This is exemplified in portrayals of conservative cultural norms as stifling positive change. A growing body of research across the world indicates that the reality is seldom as simple as this—culture works in complex and variable ways, and, most importantly, is inherently dynamic. Drawing especially from research work on vulnerability and adaptation conducted in semi‐arid regions, we illustrate this argument by briefly exploring three themes—multiple knowledge systems for farming in Botswana, the dynamics of pastoralist values and livelihoods in Kenya, and the interplay of caste and livelihood choices in India. Understanding how different facets of culture such as these operate in context helps move away from viewing culture statically as a barrier or enabler, and toward a more plural and dynamic appreciation of the role of culture in adaptation. This includes recognizing the potential for factors that may be construed as barriers to become enablers. Critical, balanced engagement with cultural dimensions in both research and practice, understanding and working with these dynamic social structures, is essential if adaptation is to create meaningful and lasting change for those who need it most. This article is categorized under: Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change > Values‐Based Approach to Vulnerability and Adaptation

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Section: Pastoralist Values and Livestock Transitions In Kenyamentioning

confidence: 99%

Culture as a mediator of climate change adaptation: Neither static nor unidirectional

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Singh³

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“…Giovannetti and Ticci [3] point to biofuel-related projects that amplified international land acquisitions, showing that biofuel crops account for a share of about 54% in terms of the total number of deals in Africa. Green pretexts of areas in need of protection have contributed to land dispossession [4][5][6][7]. The distribution and accessibility of food are judged as the main drivers towards land [8,9].…”

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confidence: 99%

What Drives Landowners to Resist Selling Their Land? Insights from Ethical Capitalism and Landowners’ Perceptions

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Kopaei

Petrescu

2021

Land

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Foreign land grabbing is acknowledged as a phenomenon that generates disempowerment and dispossession of local farmers, human rights violations. Previous studies have revealed the lack of ethical benchmarks in foreign large-scale land transactions that raise moral concerns. It is evident that when resources are scarce and people depend on them, the balance between values and interests transforms itself into a dilemma. Within this context, the aims of the paper were to bring to the fore critical reflection on a more ethical perspective of large-scale land acquisitions and to extend the scant information on what factors determine landowners not to sell their land to foreigners to limit land grabbing. This context justifies the need for a critical reflection on a more ethical perspective of large-scale land acquisitions. Therefore, two objectives were set. The first one is to document the role of ethics in large-scale land transactions. Based on the land grabbing literature, authors selected a set of eight land grabbing narratives, most often interrelated and overlapping, that pose ethical considerations. The second objective is to reveal how well a set of variables can predict the “Resistance to sell” the land to foreigners even when an attractive price is offered. As ethics is a social construct, the analysis captured the stakeholders’ perspective on land grabbing. Therefore, a questionnaire was applied to a sample of 332 Romanian landowners from twelve randomly selected counties to reveal their perceptions. Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was used to observe how well a set of seven variables could predict landowners’ “Resistance to sell” their land to foreign buyers. The use of PLS-SEM was justified by the existence of single items and the need to examine many structural model relations. Results showed that the variables with the strongest contribution to the prediction of the dependent variable are the “Probability to join an association for farmers rights defense”, the “Importance of the land price offered by the potential foreign buyer”, and the “Perceived effect of agricultural land conversion to urban land”. Raising awareness on the importance of buyer attributes, increasing people’s perception of the negative effect of agricultural land conversion to urban land, or strengthening the state’s image as a necessary actor to limit land grabbing will increase landowners’ resistance to sell their land to foreigners. Finally, it can be inferred that, within this frame of discussion, ethics should be valued as a means to create economically viable and morally justifiable solutions for foreign large-scale land transactions.

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“…These investments show classic forms of commons and resilience grabbing but are embedded in strategies of social and ecological corporate responsibility schemes (CSRs), masking the grabbing process and the undermining of the resilience of marginal groups and women. Gargule Achiba's [29] paper shows a classical conflict of an internationally-celebrated green investment in a wind park in Northern Kenya. It explains the way land is grabbed but legitimized by green energy Anti-Politics Machine.…”

Section: Green Investments and Anti-politics Machinesmentioning

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Does Commons Grabbing Lead to Resilience Grabbing? The Anti-Politics Machine of Neo-Liberal Agrarian Development and Local Responses

Haller

Käser

Ngutu

2020

Land

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Navigating Contested Winds: Development Visions and Anti-Politics of Wind Energy in Northern Kenya

Cited by 37 publications

References 76 publications

Culture as a mediator of climate change adaptation: Neither static nor unidirectional

Culture as a mediator of climate change adaptation: Neither static nor unidirectional

What Drives Landowners to Resist Selling Their Land? Insights from Ethical Capitalism and Landowners’ Perceptions

Does Commons Grabbing Lead to Resilience Grabbing? The Anti-Politics Machine of Neo-Liberal Agrarian Development and Local Responses

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