ancestral land
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commodification
community-based conservation
complex tenure
conflict management
cultivating relationships
custodianship
Development
displacement
embeddedness
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Forests
fortress conservation
gerontocracy
governance
institutional land
intimate governance
land access
land holdings
land tenure
legal pluralism
livelihood strategies
mistrust
multiplicity
national parks
relationships
safeguarding land
traditional authorities
trustworthiness
urban planning
wildlife
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- ISBN 9781805397427
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2024
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Although violent conflict has declined in northern Uganda, tensions and mistrust concerning land have increased. Residents try to deal with acquisitions by investors and exclusions from forests and wildlife reserves. Land wrangles among neighbours and relatives are widespread. The growing commodification of land challenges ideals of entrustment for future generations. Using extended case studies, collaborating researchers analyze the principles and practices that shape access to land. Contributors examine the multiplicity of land claims, the nature of transactions and the management of conflicts. They show how access to land is governed through intimate relations of gender, generation and belonging.
Lotte Meinert is Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University. She has carried out research in Uganda since 1993 and led research capacity projects in Northern Uganda for 15 years. Her publications include Time Work: Studies of Temporal Agency Biosocial Worlds (Berghahn, 2020) and Configuring Contagion: Ethnographies of Biosocial Epidemics (Berghahn, 2021).
