Social struggles in Uganda’s Acholiland: understanding responses and resistance to Amuru sugar works

Martiniello, Giuliano

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“…Several recent contributions to the Journal of Peasant Studies have explored the role of women vis-à-vis men in public protests against land grabbing and forced evictions, particularly in the case of palm oil expansion in Indonesia (Morgan, 2017), rubber concessions in Cambodia (Lamb et al, 2017), and sugarcane production in Uganda (Martiniello, 2015). Although these overt forms of political contention have had limited success in curbing displacement and dispossession, these studies are nonetheless important for understanding how gender, as a power-laden process, becomes directly embedded in struggles over land.…”

Section: Political Reactions From Below and Abovementioning

confidence: 99%

Routledge Handbook of Gender and Agriculture

Sachs¹,

Jensen²,

Castellanos³

et al. 2020

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The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Agriculture covers major theoretical issues as well as critical empirical shifts in gender and agriculture.Gender relations in agriculture are shifting in most regions of the world with changes in the structure of agriculture, the organization of production, international restructuring of value chains, climate change, the global pandemic, and national and multinational policy changes.This book provides a cutting-edge assessment of the field of gender and agriculture, with contributions from both leading scholars and up-and-coming academics as well as policymakers and practitioners.The handbook is organized into four parts: part 1, institutions, markets, and policies; part 2, land, labor, and agrarian transformations; part 3, knowledge, methods, and access to information; and part 4, farming people and identities. The last chapter is an epilogue from many of the contributors focusing on gender, agriculture, and shifting food systems during the coronavirus pandemic. The chapters address both historical subjects as well as ground-breaking work on gender and agriculture, which will help to chart the future of the field.The handbook has an international focus with contributions examining issues at both the global and local levels with contributors from across the world.With contributions from leading academics, policymakers, and practitioners, and with a global outlook, the Routledge Handbook of Gender and Agriculture is an essential reference volume for scholars, students, and practitioners interested in gender and agriculture.

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Section: Political Reactions From Below and Abovementioning

confidence: 99%

Routledge Handbook of Gender and Agriculture

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Jensen²,

Castellanos³

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“…The mine was interpreted within a historical regional context, and was seen as reinforcing relations of exploitation. This resonates with other cases in which land deals and their attendant social tensions have been mapped onto longer histories of governmental neglect and violent conflict (Kandel 2015;Martiniello 2015).…”

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“This Mine is for the Entire Casamance Coastline”: The Politics of Scale and the Future of the Extractive Frontier in Casamance, Senegal

Fent¹

2021

Afr. Stud. Rev.

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As evidenced by the widespread controversy surrounding an otherwise small-scale mining investment pending in Casamance, Senegal, uncertainty shapes the extension of the extractive frontier. Fent argues that amid this uncertainty, different actors are able to politicize or depoliticize extractive investments through the work of scaling. Opponents cast the project as part of larger-scale, longer-term extraction, linking it with regional narratives. By contrast, state and corporate actors depoliticized the mine by emphasizing its limited extent and downscaling conflict to the local level. This demonstrates the conflictual processes through which extractive frontiers are realized—and resisted—through both space and time.

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“…The relation between social movements and CBNRM is not unidirectional. Existing CBNRM, rights and management institutions can be repurposed or used as stepping stones to organize, legitimize, and sustain environmental justice mobilizations oriented to defending community livelihoods (85,(173)(174)(175)(176)(177). This has been observed mostly in the rural context and at local levels.…”

Section: Community-based Natural Resource Management Institutions Can Be Repurposed For Livelihood-based Mobilizations (Mostly In the Glomentioning

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“…Similarly, long-standing community associations in Colombia and their rights to self-organize water provision, as well as associated understandings of water as a living being and a commons, were key in the national campaign to constitutionally recognize the human right to water and to counter privatization proposals (102); additionally, in the US state of Washington, sovereign fishing rights of the Lummi Nation constituted the focal point of a movement against the construction of the largest coal-shipping port in the state (178). In Mongolia (173) and Uganda (175), the strong collective organization of herders, together with their resource allocation rules and the recognition of traditional leaders' authority on land matters, facilitated community mobilizations against extractive projects threatening their lands. Similarly, in the Ecuadorian Amazon, a community-based monitoring program has been key in the efforts of the Amazonian Defense Front movement to give visibility to the damage emanating from the local oil industry (179).…”

Section: Community-based Natural Resource Management Institutions Can Be Repurposed For Livelihood-based Mobilizations (Mostly In the Glomentioning

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Commons Movements: Old and New Trends in Rural and Urban Contexts

Villamayor-Tomás

García-López

2021

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

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Over the past few years, studies in political ecology and environmental justice have been increasingly connecting the commons and social movements empirically, giving shape to a new, distinctive body of research on commons movements. In our review, we first organize and synthesize empirical lessons from this body of literature. We then highlight recent theoretical efforts made by scholars to both bridge and transcend the gap between the theory of the commons and social movement theory. As we illustrate, movements can help create and strengthen commons institutions and discourses, as well as rescale them horizontally and vertically. This is particularly evident in the context of rural community-rights movements in the global South, as well as in new water and food commons movements and community-energy movements in both the global South and North. Commons institutions, in turn, can serve as the basis of social mobilization and become a key frame for social movements, as shown in the context of local environmental justice and livelihoods conflicts and anti-privatization struggles. Tensions and contradictions of commons-movement dynamics also exist and reflect trade-offs between diversity versus uniformization and organizational closure versus expansion of discourses and practices. Theoretically, there is an opportunity to cross boundaries from the theory of the commons to social movement theory and vice versa, e.g., by highlighting the role of political opportunities and framing, and biophysical factors and polycentricity, respectively. More importantly, a new commons movements theory is emerging focusing on cross-scalar organizations, the virtuous cycles between commons projects and mobilization, and the processes of commons-making. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Volume 46 is October 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Social struggles in Uganda’s Acholiland: understanding responses and resistance to Amuru sugar works

Cited by 8 publications

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Routledge Handbook of Gender and Agriculture

Routledge Handbook of Gender and Agriculture

“This Mine is for the Entire Casamance Coastline”: The Politics of Scale and the Future of the Extractive Frontier in Casamance, Senegal

Commons Movements: Old and New Trends in Rural and Urban Contexts

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