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Title:The Micropolitics of Common Property Management on the Maasina Floodplains of Central Mali
Author:Turner, Matthew D.ISNI
Year:2006
Periodical:Canadian Journal of African Studies
Volume:40
Issue:1
Pages:41-75
Language:English
Geographic term:Mali
Subjects:land conflicts
pastoralists
Fulani
land tenure
Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
Development and Technology
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Ethnic and Race Relations
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/25433866
Abstract:The author uses the case of land conflict between and among Fulbe livestock herders (the Hadankoobe clan, a pseudonym) and rice farmers on the Maasina floodplains of the Inland Niger Delta of Mali, to develop a framework of the broader politics that often surround farmer-herder conflict in Sudano-Sahelian West Africa. He discusses the common property management regime used in this area, which is based on the division of the floodplain in c. 32 pasture territories, or 'leyde' (sing.'leydi'). Furthermore, he shows that farmer-herder relations in the Maasina are governed by a broader set of political-economic relations than simply their competing uses of land. The Hadankoobe are known as being highly confrontational in response to competing land claims by herders and farmers and resistant toward government monitoring and regulation. Some of these confrontations have turned violent. Through an examination of Hadankoobe political ideology and conflict strategies the author shows that two major factors contribute to the habitual confrontational stance taken by the Hadankoobe: the ineffective and damaging 'mediation' of disputes; and the leadership vacuum that exists today within the clan. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in French. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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