Ruling by Record: The Meaning of Rights, Rules and Registration in an Andean
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Nuijten, Monique; Lorenzo, David J.

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“…The board of the comunidad renders accounts each year of all revenues and expenditures. The same happens with all land that is given back to the comunidad for purposes of redistribution, for which a special registration system exists, denominated ‘land dictionaries’ (Nuijten and Lorenzo ).…”

Section: The Creation Of a Communal Disciplinary Regimementioning

confidence: 99%

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The Real of Community, the Desire for Development and the Performance of Egalitarianism in the Peruvian Andes: A Materialist–Utopian Account

Vries

2014

Journal of Agrarian Change

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Section: The Creation Of a Communal Disciplinary Regimementioning

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“…There is a great deal of competition, in particular, over irrigated land. Some comuneros are accused of possessing ‘hidden plots’; for example, land that is not recorded in the land dictionaries (Nuijten and Lorenzo ). Few comuneros reach the maximum allowable extent of land available to them.…”

Section: The Creation Of a Communal Disciplinary Regimementioning

confidence: 99%

The Real of Community, the Desire for Development and the Performance of Egalitarianism in the Peruvian Andes: A Materialist–Utopian Account

Vries

2014

Journal of Agrarian Change

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“…In the context of Nepal, a particular blurring between ‘the state’ and ‘civil society’ occurs in government sponsored forestry institutions such as District Forest Offices, as well as state/donor sponsored programmes that are predicated upon civic associations, like Community and Collaborative forestry. They are blurred because of the ways all parties engage in forestry management, but also because of the ideas they draw upon to claim the right to govern (see also Lund, 2009; Nightingale, 2005; Nuijten and Lorenzo, 2009; Ribot, 2009; Sivaramakrishnan, 2000). As we explore how key institutions engage in forestry governance in Nepal, we see more clearly how cultural codes of legitimacy produce authority and the ways they intersect with subjectivity to shape the emergence of (authoritative) institutions.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…But this does not mean such authority remains uncontested. Even when widely considered legitimate, there will be some people and institutions who will question this authority (Nuijten and Lorenzo, 2009; Vandekerckhove and Suykens, 2008). Such situations raise three interesting questions: a) what are the processes of authorization?…”

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Rethinking Power and Authority: Symbolic Violence and Subjectivity in Nepal's Terai Forests

Nightingale¹,

Ojha²

2013

Development and Change

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Recent work on authority, power and the state has opened up important avenues of inquiry into the practices and contexts through which power is exercised. Why certain forms of authority emerge as more durable and legitimate than others remains a challenge, however. In this article we bring together two bodies of thought to engage this issue, feminist theories of power and subjectivity and Bourdieu's ideas of symbolic violence, in order to explore how power and authority are reproduced and entrenched. Our purpose is to advance theorizing on power and authority in the context of contentious political situations and institutional emergence. This unusual theoretical synergy allows us to illustrate how power is exercised in relation to natural resource management and the ways in which the conflict/post‐conflict context creates institutional forms and spaces which simultaneously challenge and reinforce antecedent forms of authority. To animate our theoretical concerns, we draw on work in community‐based forestry in Nepal, with a focus on some of the conflicts that have arisen in relation to the valuable Sal forests of the Terai, or lowland plains.

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“…This concept was proposed by Ilana Feldman in her study on bureaucracy, authority, and practices of rule under different temporary regimes of governance in Gaza. 6 In the case of local civil servants in Nepal, I identify 'absent presence', 7 persuasion, and 'rule talk' 8 as practices of tactical government.…”

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‘From Our Side Rules Are Followed’: Authorizing bureaucracy in Nepal's ‘permanent transition’

Byrne¹

2018

Mod. Asian Stud.

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This article explores how local civil servants produce the conditions of possibility for bureaucratic authority in Nepal's contested political environment of war and post-war ‘transition’. Specifically, it examines the everyday practices of local civil servants as they attempt to influence the distribution of such public resources as agricultural inputs and local government budgets. The article asks: how do local civil servants produce the authority necessary to get things done in the face of changing local government structuresandrival authority claims frombothwartime Maoist People's Governments and resurgent patronage politics in the post-war period? In a context characterized as ‘ordinary extraordinary’, the article suggests that local civil servants employ a form of practice that has been termed ‘tactical government’ and proposes three distinct forms of this practice. However, the article also argues that tactical practice tells only part of the story and that it can be insightful to enrich our understanding of tactical government with an analysis of more general life projects. Bureaucratic practices are also motivated by factors such as the significance of the contested resource and paternal ideas of ‘the common good’. Such a suggestion is in line with recent work on everyday lives in situations of protracted violent conflict and insecurity, and on the role of culture in producing civil servants/services. Looking at these two forms of practice together, in particular their interconnections, gives us a fuller account of how authority is produced. Furthermore, it allows more nuanced and detailed perspectives into the complex process of state-making.

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Ruling by Record: The Meaning of Rights, Rules and Registration in an Andean Comunidad

Cited by 4 publications

References 4 publications

The Real of Community, the Desire for Development and the Performance of Egalitarianism in the Peruvian Andes: A Materialist–Utopian Account

The Real of Community, the Desire for Development and the Performance of Egalitarianism in the Peruvian Andes: A Materialist–Utopian Account

Rethinking Power and Authority: Symbolic Violence and Subjectivity in Nepal's Terai Forests

‘From Our Side Rules Are Followed’: Authorizing bureaucracy in Nepal's ‘permanent transition’

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