The Market Meets Sacred Fire: Land Pawning as Institutional Syncretism in Inter-War Senegal

Galvan, Dennis

doi:10.2307/3601877

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“…The concept of institutional bricolage (De Koning 2011, 2014; Cleaver 2012) has good explanatory power in showing how norms are articulated, explaining both institutional endurance and change, enriching understanding of human agency and relations of authority and in questioning assumptions about institutional effectiveness. Adapted from Levi-Strauss' formulation of intellectual bricolage, this concept has also been developed by academics in the context of livelihood studies (Batterbury 2001) organizational studies (Freeman 2007), religious anthropology (Galvan 1997) and more. This article and the special issue mostly build on the work by Douglas (1987) on institutional bricolage.…”

Section: Institutional Bricolagementioning

confidence: 99%

Furthering critical institutionalism

Cleaver

Koning²

2015

Int J Commons

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This special issue furthers the study of natural resource management from a critical institutional perspective. Critical institutionalism (CI) is a contemporary body of thought that explores how institutions dynamically mediate relationships between people, natural resources and society. It focuses on the complexity of institutions entwined in everyday social life, their historical formation, the interplay between formal and informal, traditional and modern arrangements, and the power relations that animate them. In such perspectives a social justice lens is often used to scrutinise the outcomes of institutional processes. We argue here that critical institutional approaches have potentially much to offer commons scholarship, particularly through the explanatory power of the concept of bricolage for better understanding institutional change. Critical institutional approaches, gathering momentum over the past 15 years or so, have excited considerable interest but the insights generated from different disciplinary perspectives remain insufficiently synthesised. Analyses emphasising complexity can be relatively illegible to policy-makers, a fact which lessens their reach. This special issue therefore aims to synthesise critical institutional ideas and so to lay the foundation for moving beyond the emergent stage to make meaningful academic and policy impact. In bringing together papers here we define and synthesise key themes of critical institutionalism, outline the concept of institutional bricolage and identity some key challenges facing this school of thought.

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Section: Institutional Bricolagementioning

confidence: 99%

Furthering critical institutionalism

Cleaver

Koning²

2015

Int J Commons

273

211

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“…Consequently, these new patchworks of different rules, norms and beliefs are always linked to commonly acceptable ways of doing things. In the process of institutional bricolage, institutional components from different origins are continuously re-used, reworked, or refashioned to perform new functions (Galvan 1997;Lanzara 1999;Cleaver 2001;Sehring 2009;Koning 2011). Institutional bricolage is a reaction against the idea that designed institutions can be universally effective in achieving a predefined purpose.…”

Section: Critical Institutionalism and Institutional Bricolagementioning

confidence: 99%

Bricolage Practices in Local Forestry

Koning

Benneker²

2012

Forest and Nature Governance

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“…Instead, it regards existing institutions as a bricolage of borrowed, adapted and combined institutions at hand in the processes of solving resource management problems by collective action (Cleaver, 2001(Cleaver, , 2002Cleaver & de Koning, 2015). These modified and new arrangements always fit into what is locally perceived as an acceptable manner of doing things (Cleaver, 2001;Galvan, 1997;Lanzara, 1999;Sehring, 2009).…”

Section: Institutional Bricolagementioning

confidence: 99%

Navigating dynamic contexts: African cooperatives as institutional bricoleurs

Mangnus

Schoonhoven-Speijer

2020

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

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In agricultural policy and programmes, cooperatives have been framed as organizational fix for addressing institutional voids and market imperfections in rural Africa. By way of guaranteeing scale, quality of produce, and professionalism, cooperatives are assumed to be capable to subvert current trading patterns and contribute to sustainable market access for small-scale farmers. However, such change logic does not hold up well with the circumstances of African farmers and traders. We argue that for understanding how a cooperative organizes sustainable market linkages, attention should be paid to its capacity to navigate within its specific context. This article traces the emergence and development of two cooperatives in distinct contexts, Uganda and Mali. We use a critical institutionalist approach, called bricolage, to show how in both cases farmers organize sustainable market access by blending novel arrangements with existing institutions embedded in social and economic relations. We suggest agricultural policy and programmes to shift attention to the ability of a cooperative to embed new institutions in socio-historical shaped local realities rather than requiring them to comply to an ideal-type organization.

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The Market Meets Sacred Fire: Land Pawning as Institutional Syncretism in Inter-War Senegal

Cited by 17 publications

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Furthering critical institutionalism

Furthering critical institutionalism

Bricolage Practices in Local Forestry

Navigating dynamic contexts: African cooperatives as institutional bricoleurs

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